Benefits of Staking:

Staking your PotCoin requires the coins to be held in your desktop QT wallet. This encourages people to take control of their finances rather than leaving their private keys in the hands of third party services.

By staking your PotCoin your computer becomes an active node on the network, processing and relaying transactions. It not only earns you additional PotCoins but it's also the backbone of the PotCoin network and security.

When you stake PotCoins, the network rewards you with an annual interest rate of approximately 5%.

How to Stake:

Step 4 - In order to stake you will have to unlock your PotCoin wallet. Unlock your wallet “for staking only” enter your password and the QT wallet will begin to stake. Look out for the little green Staking Arrow in the bottom right hand corner of your wallet. Congrats, you are now STAKING!

Step 3 - Encrypt your wallet. It is important to remember your password or your coins will be lost. Please write down your password somewhere safe.

Reserving a balance (Advanced Feature):

It is possible to “reserve” a balance in your desktop QT wallet. Reserving a balance will allow you to spend those “reserved” coins while your wallet is staking. In order to reserve a balance, open your QT wallet and open the Console. The console can be found by clicking the help menu, then the ‘debug info’ tab and you will see the option to open the “CONSOLE”.

Type the following command in the console and replace “X” with the number of coins you wish to RESERVE:

reservebalance true X

Type the following command in the console to remove the RESERVE balance:

reservebalance false