How to switch to staking as investor (PoS) only? And why? e.g. mag unit is low at the moment

[Erkan-Yilmaz]

• How to switch to investor staking (PoS)?
• Why I switched from PoR (Proof of Research) to only generating blocks via PoS, at the moment?

How to switch to investor staking (PoS)?

• When you stake in !investor mode you still help/secure the network because the net weight stays higher (than when you shutdown your wallet)

How to go to investor mode?

1. exit your wallet
2. uncomment your email (or set the boincdatadir=foo) in your gridcoinresearch.conf file
3. of course remember what you did in step 2, so you can revert it later
4. start your wallet and make sure you see below picture after a few minutes (indicating you are an investor)

Why I switched from PoR (Proof of Research) to only generating blocks via PoS, at the moment?

See the magnitude unit evolution here. Right now it fell even more, down to 0.15

That means you will get

• paid out less $GRC currently...

thus I am waiting with my PoR staking until the mag unit increases again...

In short:

• if coin production is low: mag unit is increased
• if coin production is high: it's decreased

Further links:

• "The previous 2 SB's were forced through by @ravonn adding a dummy CPID with high mag. However there was a slight issue with doing this because the mag_unit reduced. To prevent the mag unit drop, Rob made a change to increase everyone's mag and still allow SB's to be accepted." and Did you notice an UNEXPECTED magnitude/reward drop in the new superblock? => Stake only as investor, temporarily #12
• button to switch to investor-mode (and back)

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[Erkan-Yilmaz]

see this comment:

• I made the right decision