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Docs/Protocol/Mining

Ergo Voting

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Ergo allows miners to vote on various settings in blocks. Votes can be set in the node config file.

Ergo Params#

The table below lists all possible parameters miners can vote on in Ergo.

IdParameterDefaultUsage
1Storage fee factor (per byte storage period)1250000ERG per byte which can be charged on eligible storage rent UTXOs
2Minimum monetary value of a box360Minimum amount of ERG per byte of a UTXO
3Maximum block size524288Maximum number of bytes in a block
4Maximum block computation cost1000000Maximum amount of computations that a block may have
5Token access cost100Computational cost of tokens
6Cost per input2000Computational cost of inputs
7Cost per data input100Computational cost of data inputs
8Cost per output100Computational cost of outputs
120Soft-forkN/AIncreases the block version for a soft fork
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