@Dusk_Foundation I was staring at the DUSK generator split after a quieter block and caught myself doing the lazy math again: 70% plus 10%, so basically 80%. Not quite.
That last 10% is conditional, which means the generator is really moving inside a band, somewhere between 0.70B and 0.80B. The 70% is the part I would treat as the floor. The rest is where behavior starts getting interesting.
What threw me a little was the denominator. An extra 10 percentage points of the full block reward is not just a “10% bonus” to the generator. Relative to the 70% base, the maximum uplift is 10/70, about 14.29%. Same mechanism, different way of looking at the pressure.
And then fees move too.
So if the total block reward changes while the conditional portion changes at the same time, the final payout can look stable even though the conditions underneath it were not. That makes raw reward numbers less useful than I first thought.
I’m not sure the variable slice is large enough to materially change operator behavior in every regime. I’d rather watch a long run of quiet blocks, fee-heavy blocks, and uneven certificate outcomes and see whether that 70–80% band actually shows up in how generators behave. #dusk $DUSK
That last 10% is conditional, which means the generator is really moving inside a band, somewhere between 0.70B and 0.80B. The 70% is the part I would treat as the floor. The rest is where behavior starts getting interesting.
What threw me a little was the denominator. An extra 10 percentage points of the full block reward is not just a “10% bonus” to the generator. Relative to the 70% base, the maximum uplift is 10/70, about 14.29%. Same mechanism, different way of looking at the pressure.
And then fees move too.
So if the total block reward changes while the conditional portion changes at the same time, the final payout can look stable even though the conditions underneath it were not. That makes raw reward numbers less useful than I first thought.
I’m not sure the variable slice is large enough to materially change operator behavior in every regime. I’d rather watch a long run of quiet blocks, fee-heavy blocks, and uneven certificate outcomes and see whether that 70–80% band actually shows up in how generators behave. #dusk $DUSK