Back to collectionA running pool with no reward
The node group was unusually quiet on Father's Day. XAI stood at 0.68. A healthy machine no longer seemed enough to justify his original expectations for an independent pool.
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The node group was unusually quiet on Father's Day. An operator of his own staking pool kept the machine running and wanted to know why there was still no reward. He had planned his commitment around being able to maintain a node independently.
XAI stood at 0.68. He asked repeatedly: since opening the pool, he had received not one esXAI, despite the machine running 24 hours a day and logs showing no errors. The official answer was probability: the default tier had a 1% chance of winning, and staking esXAI was needed to climb tiers. He then asked whether he should simply put both his key and coins in someone else's large pool.
A healthy machine no longer seemed enough to justify his original expectations for an independent pool. He held off on closing it and decided to calculate his commitment and the requirements for a higher tier before comparing his own pool with a larger one. Whether he could afford to keep waiting for a reward remained unresolved.