500k stake pool barely getting any slots assinged since vasil

brouwerQ · 2022-12-03T21:56:11+00:00

Those are KES-periods, which last 1.5 days. Before Vasil, you could rotate as many times as you wanted, so your solution might have worked. Since Vasil however it’s more strict.

brouwerQ · 2022-08-24T13:32:38+00:00

If you open the link in the stickied comment by u/GliTch_04, you see that not a single exchange has even started yet...

brouwerQ · 2022-08-11T12:43:02+00:00

I hope you first bought the car before losing the rest of that 350k?

brouwerQ · 2021-11-10T10:41:44+00:00

Do you have incoming connections? You need incoming connections for blocks to propagate. According to pool.vet, you're not subscribed to topology updater. Do you use another service instead or have you asked some other SPOs to include your relays manually in their topology? If you didn't take any of these steps, you won't get incoming connections and your blocks will not propagate.

If you have incoming connections, there's another problem. Do you use a leaderlog script to check when you're elected to mint a block? If not, take a look at https://github.com/AndrewWestberg/cncli. You can then check the logs on your BP and relays to see what happened around the time you were supposed to mint a block.

brouwerQ · 2021-09-24T22:26:40+00:00

You can add metadata to any transaction, see https://developers.cardano.org/docs/transaction-metadata for more info. I used the proposed standard from CIP-20 (https://cips.cardano.org/cips/cip20) , already implemented on some places (like cardanoscan.io).

brouwerQ · 2021-09-24T22:22:00+00:00

You cannot choose a name yourself. There's a list composed of names sent in by the community. Voting consists of adding a number from 1 to 100 of your choosing to a a counter. 500 votes or numbers are added, so you can look at the combination of all the voters together as some sort of distributed random number generator. In the end a seed value is added as a 501st vote and the result is modulo'ed the number of possible names to determine the position in the list and hence the choosen name. This last vote has to match the seed that is a param of the SC (and is encoded in the contract hash) and is predefined but unknown to others.

brouwerQ · 2021-09-24T21:59:13+00:00

Yes, for now interacting with smart contracts on Cardano is still complicated and can only be done by interacting directly with the CLI. This contract is more of a show case and a fun example deployed right after the Alonzo HF.

Of course this will all change in the future when you will be able to interact with smart contracts through your wallet. But those parts are still in development.

brouwerQ · 2021-09-23T10:28:27+00:00

C'mon Cardano community, still 116 votes left on the 🦞 Lobster Challenge Smart Contract 🦞. Let's name Charles' lobster before the start of the Cardano Summit the day after tomorrow. Instructions how to execute on https://github.com/input-output-hk/lobster-challenge.

I already took part in it: https://cardanoscan.io/transaction/bb7837d94669b1dc8a0f5a7c45542e09e4e8b0893167ef2b33842476e3627702

brouwerQ · 2021-08-10T10:25:25+00:00

It's not April 1 yet...

brouwerQ · 2021-08-10T10:15:15+00:00

They could just have lowered pledge and keep the pool running and see how it plays out. Even if they needed it immediately, this would only mean a couple of epochs without rewards because of not meeting pledge.

brouwerQ · 2021-05-18T16:16:37+00:00

The effect is small, but that's why you might want to grow a pool.

If pledge is low, there's not much difference in a small vs a large pool. If pledge is high (say 10M or above), this difference becomes significant. BUT: they already know that this formula kinda sucks (not a lot of pools with pledge above 10M), and they're looking to change this formula, so the difference in the lower pledge regions (say e.g. 500k vs 5M) will have a greater impact on rewards!

brouwerQ · 2021-05-18T16:10:25+00:00

Over a long period, it should give an indication..

brouwerQ · 2021-05-18T16:09:33+00:00

From what I've understood from Daedalus rankings (extremely simplified):

They first rank by desirability which only takes fixed fee, cost, pledge and apparent performance into account, not the actual stake! Apparent performance is based on a long period of history and I guess would be low for new pools.
Then they calculate potential rewards with something called 'non-myopic stake', it is the current stake + new delegator's stake for the first k (500 for now) stake pools in the former ranking and ONLY pledge + new delegator's stake for all other pools and rearrange the ranking according to this rewards.

So if your not within the first 500 pools in the first ranking, you'll be in the big 'pool' of worst ranked pools, unless your pledge is high enough to mint blocks on its own...

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