Back to collectionStaking and Node Rewards Get Separate Answers
XAI stood at $0.0102, seeming to test a floor after the fall, though hardly anyone in the chat discussed the price. A manual Sentry operator asked in the node group. Unlike the recent open questions about price and old cards, this exchange gave node participants a usable operational answer.
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XAI stood at $0.0102, seeming to test a floor after the fall, though hardly anyone in the chat discussed the price. Node operators had a more immediate question: would staking esXAI from the same wallet used to run a Sentry manually affect rewards?
A manual Sentry operator asked in the node group. An operator replied that staking esXAI raised only the pool's tier and multiplier; a node that kept running would still earn rewards, so the two activities did not conflict. After hearing this, the Night Watchman revised the explanation he was preparing for newcomers, separating the pool multiplier from node rewards so that nobody would read the answer as saying staking could replace node operation.
Unlike the recent open questions about price and old cards, this exchange gave node participants a usable operational answer. It let the Night Watchman explain more accurately how staking and running a node from one wallet related to each other. Whether any particular node was actually running still required its own check, and a price near $0.0102 did not establish that a bottom had formed.