It's. 1.5 bts per block. That was mentioned by bm, but is also very visible on the Blockchain. Please don't withdraw any witness pay until we know the issue is fixed. It is possible that you will cause a fork if you do.
Get_vesting_balance will show your available balance in satoshis. Divide by 100000 to find available balance.
What? You must be kidding right? When was this ever discussed? Your post is now several days old, is it still valid? References would certainly be nice to see.
Secondly, our pay is nowhere near $300 / month given the feed costs. DSN and I talked about this for quite awhile on Telegram last night. Taking feed fees into consideration we're not even close to the $300 / month Bytemaster said would be the initial witness pay level.
I've made 2 withdrawals, the first Sunday and the second last night . I took out 1000 BTS at a wack until I got an error. Both Sunday and last night the most I could extract was 5000 BTS. According to get_global_properties of the cli wallet witness pay is 15 BTS per block not 1.5: "witness_pay_per_block": 150000. Perhaps that's a bug, but everywhere else a BTS balance is seen you drop 4 zeros to get the true BTS value not 5 as would be required for the pay rate to be 1.5 BTS per block.
86400 seconds in a day * 30 days = 2592000 seconds in a month.
2592000 / 3 = 864000 blocks in a month (for all witnesses, no blocks missed at all, a block generated every 3 seconds)
864000 / 30 witness = 28800 per witness per month, assuming no missed blocks
28800 blocks * 1.5 BTS per block = 43200 BTS - gross witness pay per month
20 BTS to publish each price feed * 24 (publish once per hour) = 480 BTS per day * 30 days = 14400 cost of feeds for the month
43200 BTS gross witness pay
-14400 BTS feed costs
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28800 BTS net witness pay per month
* $0.004 / BTS
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$115.20 USD net monthly witness pay
- server costs for 1 VPS
~$50
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$65.20 USD pay
Tack on fees for seed nodes or backup witnesses and you can wind up upside down.
This needs to be fixed.
What is the best way to go about it? What level of witness pay should be set? Bytemaster said initially it would be $300 / month but as you can see from the figures above that is NOT the way it is. He probably set that rate based on 17 witnesses not 30, but ask yourself, who was the 1 person that had enough votes to vote these 30 witnesses in? He may not have voted in all 30, but I can almost guarantee he voted in more than 17.
At this point your witnesses are subsidizing the network. Bytemaster has said that should not be, but here we are.
Cutting down on the number of witnesses is one way to increase pay for those that remain, as would lowering the transaction fees for price feeds.
We should be open to looking at all ideas, but the current situation is not good and something needs to be done about it.