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        <h2 class="page-header" >How to Vote</h2>

        <p>To enable voting set your block reward vote and then enable mining.</p></br>


        <h4>Step #1: Setup the Heavycoin wallet.</h4>
        <p>Download the heavycoin-qt wallet if you did not do this already. Install it and let it sync.</p>
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        <h4>Step #2: Go to the options in your wallet.</h4>
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	  F 2: Heavycoin Voting Controls
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          To set your block reward vote update field <b>3</b> - "Vote on block reward".</br>
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        <h4>Step #3: Enable mining</h4>
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             Check box (<b>1</b>) - "Mine Heavycoins" and select number of threads you wish to use for mining in field (<b>2</b>) - "Mining threads".
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        <h2 class="page-header ">Showing information about voting and money supply</h2>
        <p>You can keep track of current voting and money supply by showing detailed information on overview page of your Heavycoin wallet.</p>
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        <h4>Step #1: Setup overview page</h4>

        <p>To show information about voting select box (<b>4</b>) - "show block reward voting on overview page"</p>
        <p>To show information about money supply select box (<b>5</b>) - "show money supply on overview page"</p>

        <h2 class="page-header">Overview page</h2>
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	  Figure 3: Heavycoin Voting Overview
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        <h4>"Block reward voting" - section <b>1</b></h4>
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          <li>Current - current block reward</li>
          <li>Next - estimated next block reward, based on decentralised voting</li>
          <li>When - estimated time remaining until the votes are tallied and we change to the next block reward</li>
          <li>Your vote - your block reward vote</li>
          <li>Phase - Mint, Limit, Sustain</li>
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        <h4>"Money supply" - section <b>2</b></h4>
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          <li>Current - current money supply</li>
          <li>Next - next target</li>
          <li>Max - maximum possible money supply</li>
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        <p>For a detailed explenation of voting and what it affects have a look at <a href="about.html#decentralised-voting">how voting works</a>.</p>
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        <h4>Happy voting!<h4>


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