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One thing that would help small pools a lot is if the minimum fee was reduced from its current setting of 340 Ada.

With the minimum fee at 340 Ada a pool needs 10 million Ada total stake before the minimum fee becomes a relatively small percentage of delegator rewards. This makes it hard for a small pool to grow because it costs delegators a very high proportion of their rewards.

This 10 million Ada hurdle rate is too high.

See this post by IOHK’s @Colin_Edwards

Minimum Pool Fees (with a brief mention of K changes)

Minimum Pool Fees This is background on proposed updates to two parameters: ‘K’ and the ‘minimum fixed fee’. Much of this was discussed at the discord call; this note doesn’t add new material. This note is primarily intended to summarize what was talked about and to facilitate a continued discussion. Just to reiterate - these are changes up for consideration and I’d love to hear any constructive feedback. Background Minimum pool fees are one component of the staking rewards formula. They are…