It has been brought to my attention that posts that are currently paying out, since HF4 was initiated, are paying out zero rewards.
This is obviously deeply troubling to us all who post on Blurt.
We have identified the most likely source of the error and shall fix it as soon as possible. This will most likely require another hardfork - HF5 - but is a small change.
The lost rewards will remain in the reward-pool, as not paid out, so that votes in the near-future will be slightly larger.
Just to say that, before this error was noticed, the new votes cast were behaving according to the new formulas. Also, there is nothing wrong with the formulas themselves, it does look like an oversight in defining the numbers in a strict manner so that calculations are performed in a consistent way.
I hope to bring better news soon.
I don't see the need to post an update to this update, so a comment will be best.
I am fairly confident I have found the source of the zero-rewards. Indeed, it was the first thing that hit me, but needed some verification from a seasoned coder.
I don't know about timescales, but I think sooner than a day ago ;-)
Thank you for the clarifications. I've hoped that we would avoid the doom and gloom, and even did my part in trying to nip it before it manifested. Unfortunately I've seen it start manifesting today. Like it will be the end of the world if we have to go a week without our tokens, lol. Down below in your other comment you mentioned the RC issues, and in my opinion that was much worse. It forced many of us to stop most activity in order to recharge, as well as we needed them to tweak the RC to even do anything. That unforeseen consequence impacted harder as many of us couldn't do anything. Here, we still can, we just have to wait a week for token payouts to restart, and the size of the pool will be huge at that point mitigating much of this.
Thanks, exactly, this is an unfortunate event but can be fixed.
To avoid hardfork-fatigue, there are a couple of less obvious issues we are dealing with, hence would rather make multiple fixes instead of a HF every 2 days,
bumped for visibility
Just to add that this current error hits only at the time of payout. This is obviously deeply sad, but posting and voting is working fine, so there is no need to wait.
Let us also not forget something similar happened at Steem HF20, when most people did nothing for a week as their RC regenerated from almost nothing. But even then, a few wise souls just posted and voted on the way up rather than doing nothing for a week. ;-)
Hi @rycharde, thanks for letting us know. Congratulations on all this work you have done over the last few days, it has been a long journey.
Thanks, but seems like it isn't over yet.
Deeply disappointing to see some bit of code make such a mess of something that is actually quite simple.
We are currently looking at 2 or maybe 3 causes for these zero payouts.
Even the error itself looks less obvious the more one looks into it.
A shame coz the new behaviour of new votes seems to be going as predicted.
So I would urge people to keep posting and voting as they will be worth it in 7 days time.
In my case I only have in zero the post from 7 days ago and I don't see anywhere the rewards generated in @doble-u's Pub. Maybe the problem was just in the synchronization.
My take on this is that the rewards were received at the same time the witness nodes and rpc's were being updated. I guess there is some instruction that says if it was already paid it stays at zero. As both things happened in parallel a kind of limbo was created.
Yes, thank you for the information. How happy I was when I saw the curstion the morning but this afternoon Saudi time, supposed to be the payout the value is gone and became zero. Thank you.
Hi @rycharde!
Thanks for the information, my community friends were wondering why their posts that have been upvoted already have rewards with 0.00 tokens... I just told them to wait til the HF is completely done. Same with @vickyguevara, the rewards posts from @double-u´s The Pub is nowhere to be found.
I would like to thank you @rycharde and the team behind the scene, I know you guys are trying so hard for the sake of the blurt ecosystem. My respect for all of you guys!
thanks ! :) 💙 for your efforts
wish blurt 💙 will get well again sooner !
One question, for this hard Ford was not programmed to take the power down to 4 weeks? I ask because the 13 weeks option is still maintained,
That I don't know, sorry, best to ask Jacob or Ricardo.
Good to hear you are on it.
But does that mean until the problem will be fixed (through another Hardfork) that all coming payout will be ZERO?