Our pool name is the Best Pool Ever, our pool Ticker is: BPE

Best Cardano Stake Pool 2023 – 0.00% Fee & 100% Rewards (bestpoolever.com)

The customer stake pool fee is 0%. This is also known as the Pool Margin. Don’t get this confused with the Cardano Foundations “Pool Fee”, that’s paid by the pool operators.

The Cardano foundation sets a minimum pool fee of 340 Ada per epoch. All stake pools pay this fee and the Foundation calls it the “Pool Fee”. This amount is deducted from the total pool reward at the end of each epoch. An epoch lasts 5 days and the rewards are divided between the delegators.

Example

If the total stake pool rewards in an epoch is 10,000 Ada. The Cardano Foundation gets the first 340 Ada which leaves 9,660 Ada as rewards to be shared.

We the stake pool operator take 0%.

Cardano Pool saturation is a term used to indicate that a particular stake pool has more stake delegated to it than is ideal for the network from a security point of view.

You can still delegate to a saturated pool but you will not earn more rewards. The rewards are capped by the Cardano Foundation and the capped rewards will be shared between even more delegators leaving you with less rewards. It’s not a good idea to delegate to a saturated pool, not even one with a 0% pool fee.

Realistically, it’s not economically sustainable to charge a pool fee of 0% and maintain enterprise class infrastructure. We want some Ada rewards to be able to give back and build water wells.

We are charging an introductory, 0% fee to get our pool established and this is totally legit and should not be seen as disreputable or not serious. There are many in the Cardano community that would happily run a 0% fee pool, just for fun. Its what geeks do.

The kids running a pool from their bedrooms on a desktop pc can afford to run a 0% pool whilst they learn and acquire delegators, however there is a small chance their pool may not be online and available when its their time to mint the next block. If this happens then the pool delegators miss out on the block rewards. Minting blocks and earning rewards is a game of chance, the pool needs to be ready, waiting online to grab the baton and mint that block.

Enterprise class hardware, infrastructure and people resources are not free, they cost money to acquire, maintain and keep motivated. Running a Cardano stake pool is not easy, it requires an immense amount of learning, time, refining and continuous maintenance.

There are over 1200 registered stake pools and counting, each pool operator deserves a high five for getting this far, even Charles Hoskinson with 2 of his other techies struggled for days to get a pool up and running.

Pick any non-saturated Cardano staking pool that you are drawn too, even if the pool fee is 0% and give them a chance. Don’t worry too much about ranking, instead look for lifetime Return on Stake (ROS).

Any Cardano staking pool with less than one million delegated Ada, may struggle to mint blocks due to the random nature of block leader selection. If however a very small stake pool does mint blocks, the rewards will be higher as less delegators to share the rewards with.

A small stake pool with under 3 million delegated Ada and minting several blocks per epoch would be a good pool to consider. The smaller pools generally have a higher lifetime ROS when compared to larger established pool.

You will earn more Ada with stake pools with higher ROS, as long as they are regularly minting blocks.

Another good value to look out for is Lifetime Luck.

Pledge has several uses in Cardano, Pledge allows Stake Pool operators a way to delegate their own Ada to their Pool, it can also go some way towards the Pool operator demonstrating that they have skin in the game and commitment.

Stake Pool operators may opt to pledge some or all of their stake to make their pool more attractive.

The Pledge also has other uses however a low pledge does not really indicate less commitment. In reality it’s very difficult to setup a Cardano stake pool and it’s not possible for a Stake Pool operator to steal your Ada through the delegation mechanism in any of the supported wallets. Your Ada can only be stolen, if you transfer it due to a scam or someone has your wallet recovery keys.

Another point to consider is that a Stake Pool operator could be running from a country where $100 is a lot of money. We should support all Cardano Stake Pools, it’s the Cardano way, it’s what Cardano was built for and it’s what Charles Hoskinson would want.

Yes. Rewards earned are added to your original stake.

When your rewards are received, the balance of your reward account will also increase, therefore the delegated stake will increased.