Can anything be done to help small pool operators as the ADA price rises

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I believe this would be a great solution and i hope it gets into a CIP:

Rewards distribution formula proposal

I’m a pool owner and I would like to share this proposal with the community, to start a discussion before the review that IOHK will do in Q3 of the rewards formula. The goal of this proposal is to incentive the decentralization, resilience and independence of the Cardano network. To do this we need stake pools with a good pledge, good size and solid ownership. Also there should be a way for new pools to be able to compete with the existing, on fair playing field. The reward distribution is a g…

In summary:

There is a new mechanism called leverage which is derived by dividing stake by pledge. Assuming this number has a maximum of 20, it would mean that a small pool of 20k can have a 400k stake with very good returns.

The same means that big 60 pool groups with 60m of stake per pool would need a lot of pledge to maintain good returns!

If you think about it in a universal way, everybody would also understand that to be allowed to take care of a lot of people’s ADA it would make sense to put in more yourself as the pool operator to prove you have enough “skin in the game”.