Epoch 421 Result
4ADA: 109% 66/68) - 2 slot battles won, 2 height battles lost
F4ADA: 73% (9/9) - 1 slot battle won

Rewards payment (from ep420 result)
4ADA: 94%
F4ADA: 121%

Epoch 422 max rewards
4ADA: 96% 😏
F4ADA: 130% 🥳

Happy staking! 💫

Epoch 422 Result
4ADA: 94% 57/58) - 1 slot + 1 height battle won, 1 slot battle lost
F4ADA: 130% (16/16) - no battles

Rewards payment (from ep421 result)
4ADA: 109%
F4ADA: 73% (all assigned blocks successfully minted)

Epoch 423 max rewards
4ADA: 106% 😁
F4ADA: 114% 😁

Happy staking! 💫

Epoch 423 Result
4ADA: 103% 62/64) - 2 slot battles lost
F4ADA: 106% (13/14) - 1 slot battle lost

Rewards payment (from ep422 result)
4ADA: 94%
F4ADA: 130%

Epoch 424 max rewards
4ADA: 105% 😁
F4ADA: 83% 😏

Enjoy your weekend! 🫶

Epoch 424 Result
4ADA: 99% 60/64) - 6 slot battles won, 4 slot battles lost
F4ADA: 106% (10/10) - 1 slot battle won

Absolute crazy number of slot battles this epoch, never seen anything like it! Remember, even though they're called battles, they are decided randomly and cannot be influenced.

Rewards payment (from ep423 result)
4ADA: 103%
F4ADA: 106%

Epoch 425 max rewards
4ADA: 100% 🙂
F4ADA: 42% 😱 just 5 blocks assigned... rediculous!!!

Happy staking! 💫

Epoch 425 Result
4ADA: 95% 58/61) - 1 slot battle won, 2 slot battles, 1 height battle lost
F4ADA: 42% (5/5) - 1 slot battle won

Rewards payment (from ep424 result)
4ADA: 99%
F4ADA: 106%

Epoch 426 max rewards
4ADA: 111% 😄
F4ADA: 108% 😄

Happy staking, just keep saving those rewards for a rainy day (and a better ADA-price)! ☀️

Next epoch expected blocks and assignment luck% are not currently shown on the website as we're working on some infrastructure updates. Not sure when these will be finished, hopefully within the next few days! Block production of course is unaffected 😎

Expected blocks and assignement luck have been updated on the website. Provided everything works as it should (we changed some of the slot leadership calculation scripting) both pools can look forward to great rewards generation in epoch 427! 😃

Epoch 426 Result
4ADA: 111% 68/68) - 1 slot battle won
F4ADA: 108% (13/13) - 1 slot battle won
Perfect conversion score this epoch! 😏

Rewards payment (from ep425 result)
4ADA: 95%
F4ADA: 42% 😩 (all assigned blocks were successfully minted)

Epoch 427 max rewards
4ADA: 119% 😄
F4ADA: 116% 😄

Happy staking, enjoy the rest of your weekend 💫

Epoch 427 Result
4ADA: 117% 72/73) - 3 slot battles won, 1 slot battle lost
F4ADA: 83% (10/14) - 2 slot + 2 height battles lost

F4ADA was very unlucky this epoch, with 2 lost height battles. Both were caused by preceding pools not propagating their block fast enough to us, causing our blocks to be added to the 'older' chain. It is very frustrating to see that bad performance from other pools in this way can have negative effects on other pools instead of on themselves. 😤

On the other hand, F4ADA's lifetime ROS (Return On Stake) is still better (4.31%) than that of 4ADA (4.03%) 😏

Rewards payment (from ep426 result)
4ADA: 111% 😀
F4ADA: 108% 😀

Epoch 428 max rewards
4ADA: 97% 🙂
F4ADA: 67% ☹️

As always, Happy staking! 💫

Epoch 428 Result
4ADA: 91% 42/45) - 2 slot battles + 1 height battles lost
F4ADA: 67% (8/8) - 1 slot battle won

4ADA lost one height battle to another pool scheduled to mint 1 second later. Our average propagation time for our block was 0.92s, so in theory arriving on time at the next pool, which seems to be rather slow, giving the 1.27s it took to propagate its own block...

Rewards payment (from ep427 result)
4ADA: 117%
F4ADA: 83%

Epoch 429 max rewards
4ADA: 108% 🙂
F4ADA: 82% 😕

Happy staking! 💫

Epoch 429 Result
4ADA: 97% 45/50) - 2 slot battles won, 2 slot + 1 height battles lost
F4ADA: 74% (9/10) - 1 height battle lost

F4ADA lost one height battle to a pool scheduled to mint 1 second later with lousy performance (SWM03 - https://pooltool.io/realtime/9137226). 4ADA unfortunately lost 2 blocks due to a router that somehow got stuck and needed a reboot.

Rewards payment (from ep428 result)
4ADA: 91%
F4ADA: 67% (all assigned blocks successfully minted)

Epoch 429 max rewards
4ADA: 77% ☹️
F4ADA: 91% 😕

Happy staking, and if you're on holidays you shouldn't be reading this! 😉☀️😎

Epoch 430 Result
4ADA: 69% 32/36) - 1 slot battle won, 3 slot + 1 height battles lost
F4ADA: 91% (11/11) - 1 slot battle won

Rewards payment (from ep429 result)
4ADA: 97%
F4ADA: 74%

Epoch 431 max rewards
4ADA: 106% 😁
F4ADA: 66% 😖

Keep calm and stake on! 😑

Epoch 431 Result
4ADA: 95% 44/49) - 1 slot battle won, 3 slot + 2 height battles lost
F4ADA: 66% (8/8) - no battles

Frustrating to see height battles occasionally lost to pools which are slow either to process our block or to propagate their own (for the newcomers, please note that battles or their outcome cannot be influenced in any way).

Rewards payment (from ep430 result)
4ADA: 69%
F4ADA: 91%

Epoch 432 max rewards
4ADA: 118% 😁
F4ADA: 124% 😁

Finally some great block allocations coming our way again!!

Happy staking and remember, cryptocurrency investing is an activity whereby value is slowly transferred from the impatient to the patient! 💫

Epoch 432 Result
4ADA: 114% 53/55) - 3 slot battles won, 1 slot + 1 height battle lost
F4ADA: 124% (15/15) - no battles

Rewards payment (from ep431 result)
4ADA: 95%
F4ADA: 66% (all assigned blocks successfully minted. 2 next payments will be MUCH better!)

Epoch 433 max rewards
4ADA: 118% 😁
F4ADA: 139% 🥳

Happy staking!

Here's an oldie but goldie that somehow crossed my mind when going through all the Cardano-related news this week 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjD3EVC1-zU

Epoch 433 Result
4ADA: 116% 54/55*) - 2 won slot battles, 1 won height battle, 1 lost height battle (to lousy anonymous pool with 7.65s propagation delay)
F4ADA: 139% (17/17) - 1 won slot battle

Rewards payment (from ep432 result)
4ADA: 114%
F4ADA: 124%

Epoch 434 max rewards
4ADA: 110% 😁
F4ADA: 140% 🥳

Wow, we're pushing our luck these days!

Happy staking! ☀️

*assuming we'll mint the last block at 23:30:12 (utc+2)

Epoch 434 Result
4ADA: 99% (46/51) - 1 won slot battle, 3 lost slot and 2 lost height battles
F4ADA: 132% (16/17) - 1 lost height battle

Rewards payment (from ep433 result)
4ADA: 116%
F4ADA: 139%

Epoch 435 max rewards
4ADA: 118% 😁
F4ADA: 74% ☹️

Happy staking! ☀️

Epoch 435 Result
4ADA: 99% (54/55) - 1 won slot battle, 1 lost height battle
F4ADA: 74% (9/9) - no battles

Rewards payment (from ep434 result)
4ADA: 99%
F4ADA: 132%

Epoch 436 max rewards
4ADA: 105% 😁
F4ADA: 75% ☹️

We just keep grinding away! 😏

Epoch 436 Result
4ADA: 103% (48/49) - 3 won slot battles, 1 lost height battle
F4ADA: 69% (7/9) - 2 lost height battles (1 eToro pool with 4.5s propagation delay 🤦‍♂️)

Rewards payment (from ep435 result)
4ADA: 99%
F4ADA: 74% (all assigned blocks successfully minted)

Epoch 437 max rewards
4ADA: 84% 🙁
F4ADA: 182% 🤩

Happy staking! ☀️

Epoch 437 Result
4ADA: 80% (37/39) - 2 won slot battles, 2 lost slot battles
F4ADA: 173% (21/22) - 1 lost height battle

F4ADA's orphaned block took 2 seconds to propagate to the next slot leader which was minting 1 second after us. Our propagation times are very rarely over 1 second, let alone 2. We cannot find any explanation for this other than that it must have been caused externally, since all our metrics show a nominal system performance all epoch.

Rewards payment (from ep436 result)
4ADA: 103%
F4ADA: 69% (next payment will be more than double!)

Epoch 438 max rewards
4ADA: 90% 🙂
F4ADA: 66% 😩

Happy staking! ☀️

Epoch 438 Result
4ADA: 86% (40/42) - 1 lost slot battle, 1 lost height battle (TIA pool, we were scheduled 1 second later but their block took 2.5s to propagate...)
F4ADA: 58% (7/8) - 1 lost slot battle

Rewards payment (from ep437 result)
4ADA: 80%
F4ADA: 173% (next payment will be more than double!)

Epoch 439 max rewards
4ADA: 112% 😀
F4ADA: 132% 🥳

Happy staking! 💫