Third round of payouts to loyal delegators

 

I’m happy to let you know, that ASTOR has just paid out the third round of dividends to loyal delegators. 

As always, we only keep what is actually needed to run the pool - the rest goes to delegators and charity. Everyone on equal terms, including the SPO. 

This time we could pay out 849 ADA to 14 beneficiaries. This is almost double of what it was last time. Over the last six epoch we were lucky and made blocks in all but one. A small percentage I use for research for the upcoming Alonzo area (i.e. spinning up scalable Kubernetes cluster to try stuff out). 

Here are the details ...

The next round of payouts for period [260..266] will happen in E268. 

You’re welcome to come on board.

Comments

  1. Unknown13 May 2021 at 19:31

    That's incredibly generous of you! I see your delegators are growing as a result. I've just joined too, though probably your smallest stake :-/.
    Charity is a great idea, what made you pick plant for the planet?

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    1. Thomas6 June 2021 at 09:16

      I like their work and have been on long walks with the guy who founded it. Doing charity right is hard and AFAICS they indeed have a net positive impact on things.

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