As a Cardano supporter and after watching Charles TED Talk, I’ve decided to become part of this ecosystem, and to contribute by running my own pool.
I believe in Cardano’s vision, I want to support the decentralization of the network and help AbleGamers Foundation by making regular donations and promote their mission.
You can join this pool and be part of its mission, or you can help by making donations on their website here: #SoEveryoneCanGame
Find out more about AbleGamers: AbleGamers - Wikipedia
Vowed to never run more than one pool and member of Cardano Single Pool Alliance.
I’ve been working as Sysadmin for 20+ years with background in electronics and telecom and I used technologies from Azure all the way back to Red Hat 2.1. I like my job and I still love what I’m doing, maybe less meetings.
Pool Info:
Ticker: ALoop
Name: AdaLoop
Pledge: 1k (this will increase in time)
Fixed Fee : 340
Fee : 0%
Website : https://adaloop.org
Relays hosted in : US and Germany
if pool picks up the pace, I’m planning to add another relay in Canada
20% of fixed fee will go to AbleGamers, everything else will go back to Pledge
Hi, I was staking more than 170000 Cardano and got more than 100 Cardano rewards from each epoch, a few weeks ago I switched to [[ALoop] ₳daLoop] your pool and yesterday surprised I got rewards only 15 ADA.
and also Every other pools has a contact email, you ha telegram, I joined just to message you, and I couldn’t, figured out how to communicate with you about your pool
So, not sure if they will see this. (Probably depends a bit on if they have mail notifications turned on or not.) Having a communication channel with the SPO is also not strictly necessary.
An SPO has kind of limited influence on how many rewards you get. The rewards are paid by the protocol itself based on some parameters the SPO sets and on the performance of the pool, how many blocks they get assigned (which depends on the delegation they have) and how many of them they actually produce (which is the one thing that they can influence, how well they administrate their pool).
It already has a pool cost of 170 ADA (which is the minimum) and a margin of 0.00%. So, these parameters are already as favourable as possible to the delegators.
Less than 3 million stake are not that much, though. It means that the pool will produce between two and three blocks per epoch on average, but this can fluctuate a lot and there still will be epochs with no blocks at all and for those epochs you will not get any rewards, while in other epochs you will get more.
For larger pools, this fluctuation is less dramatic because one or two blocks more or less of twenty blocks have a smaller influence there.
Completely your decision if you want to support a smaller pool and live with those fluctuations or choose a larger pool with more consistent rewards (and maybe also slightly higher ROS).
Hi,
I’m always around but mostly on TG and X. If you DM me 100% I’ll answer back.
As Sean said and thanks for the detailed explanation, we don’t have much control of what protocol gives.
And I’ll give you a couple of examples based on my pool’s history.
Epoch 513 the pool with 2.5M was assigned and produced 5 block
Epoch 514 the pool with 2.5M was assigned and produced 1 block
Epoch 519 the pool with 2.4M was assigned 0 blocks and lost a lot of delegation because of that.
Further more Epoch 521 with 1.6M again was assigned 0 blocks
Next in Epoch 550 with 856K pool was assigned and produced 5 blocks.
So you see, at some point the rewards and luck are leveling out around 100%.
Speaking of luck, Pool Lifetime luck is 103.2% with 1,171 blocks produced
Thank you and thanks for your time staking with me.
Cheers!
