Coin Stake Maturity
The coin maturity wait time was lowered with the upgrade to Proof of Stake (PoS).
Your Lynx client will restrict the address from sending coins until 30 blocks have passed since the initial deposit from the coinbase reward (staking). This will be about 150 minutes of wait time. It's important to note that this is significantly shorter than the several months of waiting time to spend mined coins from the previous Proof of Work version of Lynx, making the staking process more efficient and user-friendly.
Be sure to understand how long to wait before sending coins you earned from staking.
Not only are you required to wait 30 blocks before you can spend coins earned from Staking, but you must also wait 30 blocks before coins deposited to an address can be used for staking. An example follows;
I just deposited 5000 Lynx coins to my staking wallet. I enabled staking; why has the wallet not started staking?
You did everything right. After 30 blocks, your wallet will start staking, which can be confirmed by looking at the debug.log file on your computer. You will see a steady stream of stake-related output printed to the log. Occasionally, you will see a block your node has won, too.
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