The top 20 witnesses are getting around 1 block per round (about 1 minute), as usual, but the schedule of block production for smaller witnesses is messed up, lower rank witnesses (outside top 20) have not received blocks for around 24 hours already.
I can say for myself, before the Hardfork 26 I was getting around 2 or 3 blocks a day, but since then me and other witnesses around my level are not getting any blocks assigned for production. That is, we are not producing blocks, but we are not missing them either because we are not being assigned any, the blockchain is not asking us to produce blocks, only the ones are being allowed to produce.
In my almost 2 years as a witness I have only missed 16 blocks during maintenance, and the 16th block I have missed was a few monts ago, so I did not miss any, but did not produce any either, because the blockchain is not assigning me (nor other low ranks!) blocks!
I remember that on the last hardfork during 1 week there was a bug that allowed bots to snipe the post rewards during the first week. This hardfork is depriving low ranking witnesses and not assigning us blocks.
I am hoping this gets fixed. I feel bad and I am worried about that since the hardfork. My witness node never game me profit, it costs $100 a month but the return is about $60 or $70 a month (which I don't cash out, I leave it powered up), so I lose a couple dozen dollars a month, which I consider a risky investment, but now without being assigned blocks I am losing 100% of the infrastructure investment because I am getting no blocks to produce!
But that is not the worst part, small witnesses are used to producing blocks and supporting the blockchain at a financial loss, we don't get many blocks and we need to invest in infrastructure. So the worst part is the worrying about the hardfork, worrying if our node is running correctly, it is not knowing if we messed up, if our node is running properly and we are being good witnesses.
The last block I was assigned before the fork can be seen on the blockchain:
I am monitoring anxiously, but seems like me and other low rank are not being able to produce anymore after the fork!
