Now, almost two weeks after the war between Elite and Sherwood broke out, the promises by delegate Liberspirita fulfil: Sherwood is confirmed to be an order of magnitude more profitable than Elite.

Apparently, unvoting Elite works.

First users on the r/Lisk subreddit already noticed that Sherwood payouts are much higher than Elite payouts, even though Sherwood has only four (4) actively forging delegates, while Elite has fifty-four (54!).

A satisfied unvoter on Reddit.

Observing this, I decided to analyse my rewards to have some more current numbers to show unvoting Elite is more profitable than one might think. Therefore, I looked at all transactions on my stake account 15709494141295217973L from the past thirty days. During that time I received payouts from 12 different addresses, and these are the results:

Sherwood Pool: 113.3 LSK from 4 delegates (28.3 LSK/dlg) GDT Pool: 27.3 LSK from 33 delegates (0.8 LSK/dlg) Other Delegates: 12.0 LSK from 7 independent delegates (1.7 LSK/dlg) GDT Individuals: 3.4 LSK from 3 GDT delegates (1.1 LSK/dlg) Elite Pool: 0.0 LSK from 1 delegate (I unvoted all but Carbonara)

This is from a 21,700 LSK vote weight account. Since I don’t receive Elite payouts, I’ll just calculate what my rewards would be if I had voted all 54 delegates (53 sharing 25%, China delegate sharing nothing):

86,400 seconds per day / 10 seconds per block = 8,640 blocks per day

8,640 blocks per day / 101 active delegates * 53 Elite = 4,533 Elite blocks

4,533 Elite blocks * 4 LSK block reward = 18,135 LSK per day

18,135 LSK per day * 25% reward * 30 days = 136,015 LSK per month

136,015 LSK per month / 45,000,000 total weight * 21,700 my weight

That is in total 65.6 LSK per month from 54 Elite delegates (1.2 LSK/dlg)!

Will Elite destroy Sherwood? The unvoters decide.

So this is just the beginning. Imagine you had the power to replace Elite delegates with more Sherwood delegates? Or Ascend delegates, or the Lisk Italian Group, the Dutch Pool, or all the other independent high-sharing delegates? Your stake rewards would rocket to the moon.

The Sherwood bonus for unvoting Elite visualized.

Now, that I finally have your attention, let me help you to maximise your stake rewards by unvoting Elite. First of all, use the unvote manager to get a list of delegates to unvote, and revote:

Once done, check the Sherwood pool page for your voter status. It tells you if everything worked correctly after your votes are confirmed on the blockchain. Wait a day and see your balance sky-rocketing:

You didn’t vote in a while? Check out this fantastic GDT voting-fee refund campaign. The unvote manager is compatible with the GDT membership status and allows you to get a partial refund of your voting fees if you voted for Hirish:

Still sceptical? Check out my recent blog post where I analyse how many voters already turned their back on Elite:

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If you support this campaign, spread the word using the hashtags #uncartel #lisk on social media, and consider unvoting Elite. :)