I love the excuse for not being around. Sorry I couldn't be here, just off to present my PHD research... 
I'm still waiting on a stake as well but I'm still below 3000

I'm glad the magnitude stake weight was removed and I don't want to see it come back in any form. Central third-party projects should not have any say in securing the blockchain. 

One or more rouge admins *should not* be able to influence the security of the chain.

I was staking about 10 times a day before the fork, and it remains at that level post-fork.  I do have the rare random wallet hang (although it seems just UI-related and work appears to continue in the background), and it was confirmed by a dev that it's a known issue.

being a (non-gridcoin) developer myself, it made total sense to patch the exploits quickly, even if it wasn't an ideal fix.  then you go back and make things right later, after the fire is put out.  I'm assuming that work is going on now.

thx, added to:
* [timeline: Gridcoin's stake v8 kernel (in effect since block #1010000) since September 1](https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/timeline-gridcoin-s-stake-v8-kernel-in-effect-since-block-1010000-since-september-1)

Good post

"That being said, between wallet crashes and undetected forks I am yet to stake a single block since V8 was introduced on 50k GRC." 
Same here ... no stake since V8 around that ballpark ... had very regular stakes before.

So far I haven't had any issues stating, but during the first week or so during the fork I had about 5-6 relatively new comers asking lots of questions in IRC. All of them had lower balances and weren't staking - needless to say weren't too happy about being forced to join the pool. One did seem willing to buy some coins to even avoid the pool.

With 1700 GRC, running 24/7 it took 7 days to stake since the V8. I staked again after 3 days. Before v8 it used to take about 10 days (mag 130).

Just over 3k GRC here and have not staked since v8.  My wallet has become stable again.  I left it fully unlocked for about 14 hours and then set it back to unlocked for staking and have not had a problem since.

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Nice, it is really helpfull to read such info from someone with experience :)

I have 3400 GRC in my wallet and it is 24/7 online since one week. The wallet shows me an estimated time to earn reward of about 3-7 days (depending on network weight). Once I've staked, but it was on a fork. I was a little bit afraid as it disappeared. Hope to stake in the next days, I'll post here again if it happens.
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I'm at about 4800 GRC right now and I've been staking every 2-4 days since the patch came out.  Since it took me about 9 months to get that many GRC, it seems to be at a reasonable spot for new miners.

However, that also indicates a larger problem, which you also alluded to in one of the comments. Based on your numbers, if all possible GRC was being staked, I should be staking every 3 months.  Instead I'm staking about 30 times faster.  That means that only about 1/30 of all the coins are currently online and staking, or around 3-4%.

This actually explains a lot of things, like why one whale can stake several times in succession, and why polls generally have such poor representation.  It may be time to reconsider how we reward people for participating in staking, so that we can encourage more people to stake continuously.

In addition to  removing rsa (magnitude) weigh, StakeV8 also removed the proof of work nonce from the proof of stake kernel.

Great!! Saludos

Before V8 I was staking once or twice a day. Now (with 37k grc) I am staking about once every two day's. 
So that is fine.

What is not fine is the stability of the wallet. Once a day I check my wallet and most of the times it has crashed and I have to restart it.

This should be fixed when moving to a fixed block reward