{"id":4541,"date":"2022-11-01T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:14:22","slug":"october-2022-work-progress-report-extra-ethw-rewards-server-infrastructure-updates-ergo-reward-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/october-2022-work-progress-report-extra-ethw-rewards-server-infrastructure-updates-ergo-reward-reduction\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2022 Work Progress Report: Extra ETHW Rewards, Server Infrastructure Updates, ERGO Reward Reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big blocks on EthereumPoW blockchain; planned ERGO block reward reduction; multiple node updates, new servers deployed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Frame.png\" alt=\"October\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1930\" data-wp-pid=\"1930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Frame.png 700w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Frame-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Ethereum PoW (ETHW) Big Blocks<\/h2>\n<p>From time to time Ethereum network in past provided extra rewards for miners when it was overloaded. The mechanism was always quite simple. A high network load caused the ETH <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/what-is-gas-in-ethereum-ethereum-transaction-fees\/\">gas price<\/a> growth which led to more expensive transactions for ETH users and higher rewards for ETH miners.<\/p>\n<p>We noted the same situation happening in the EthereumPoW network this October.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_big_blocks.jpg\" alt=\"ethw_big_blocks\" width=\"1280\" height=\"873\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4543\" data-wp-pid=\"4543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_big_blocks.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_big_blocks-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_big_blocks-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_big_blocks-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_big_blocks-1200x818.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A standard ETHW reward is usually 2 ETHW per block. However, on October 16th we saw x50 and even x75 rewards for a single block. Block <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklink.com\/en\/ethw\/block\/15743034\">#15 743 034<\/a> was the most successful one, bringing more than 152 ETHW to the miners.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_biggest_block.png\" alt=\"ethw_biggest_block\" width=\"3223\" height=\"1468\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4544\" data-wp-pid=\"4544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_biggest_block.png 3223w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_biggest_block-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_biggest_block-1024x466.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_biggest_block-768x350.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_biggest_block-1536x700.png 1536w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ethw_biggest_block-2048x933.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3223px) 100vw, 3223px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>ERGO Block Reward Reduction<\/h2>\n<p>Please pay attention that the block reward dropped from 48 ERG to 45 ERG at block 849 600 on October 10th.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/2cryptocalc.com\/erg-mining-calculator\">2CryptoCalc<\/a> calculator was updated.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ERGO block rewards are reduced every three months by 3 ERG\/block.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More info could be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/ergoplatform.org\/en\/blog\/Ergos-Reemission-Vote-EIP27-A-Path-to-Sustained-Growth\/\">ERG website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That means we expect the next block reduction in January 2023.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ergo_reemission.png\" alt=\"ergo_reemission\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4545\" data-wp-pid=\"4545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ergo_reemission.png 1000w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ergo_reemission-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ergo_reemission-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>New Servers and Cryptocurrency Node Updates<\/h2>\n<p>We always keep our servers in the best possible shape to provide our users with the best mining experience. We always update the servers to the most modern hardware when possible. This October we did a lot of work upgrading both our servers&#8217; hardware and software. Some of the pools seamlessly moved from old servers to new ones. <\/p>\n<p>We also updated some cryptocurrency nodes. This is the list of the most important node updates of October.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CKB 0.104.1 (f93b498 2022-09-07)<\/li>\n<li>ZEN 3.2.0<\/li>\n<li>XMR v0.18.1.2-release<\/li>\n<li>Ergo Protocol Reference Client 4.0.105<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We welcome you to join our <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/chat2miners\">miner community in Telegram<\/a> or one of the local chats in <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/pool_2btc\">Russian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/chat2Miners_turkish\">Turkish<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/chat2Miners_spanish\">Spanish<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/chat2miners_chinese\">Chinese<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pool2miners\"><b>Twitter<\/b><\/a> to get all the news as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big blocks on EthereumPoW blockchain; planned ERGO block reward reduction; multiple node updates, new servers deployed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>October 2022 Work Progress Report: Extra ETHW Rewards, Server Infrastructure Updates, ERGO Reward Reduction - Crypto Mining Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Big blocks on EthereumPoW blockchain; planned ERGO block reward reduction; multiple node updates, new servers deployed. 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