# Rewards Post-Altair ## Expected Rewards The rewards you can expect on mainnet as of November 2 2021 are: * Attestations: 0.0040-0.0042 ETH per day * Blocks: 0.018-0.03 ETH per block * Sync committee membership: ~0.08 per sync committee participation ## Why? * The new sync committees feature has created a new role for validators. Every 256 epochs (27 hours) a new random group of 512 validators is selected to publish sync committee messages, which are similar to attestations. * If you observe substantially higher rewards for a day or two without any block proposals then your validator is likely a member of a sync committee. * Rewards for block proposals are 4x higher than previously. This is to incentivise efficient and timely block production. * Net issuance has remained the same, so the expected long term earnings for validators are the same but the percentage of rewards from attestations is lower. * **You should expect slightly lower attestation rewards**. Given the current validator count you should expect around 0.0040-0.0042 ETH per day per validator. * The issues with late blocks causing attestations to miss head/target still exist. The estimate above for attestation rewards factors in 1-2 missed target votes and 8-9 missed head votes per day. These misses are outside your control and are due to mild misbehaviour by a small number of block proposers. Several protocol changes to disincentivise late blocks are being discussed to resolve the issue. ## Further Reading * Vitalik's explanation of sync committees and how they enable light clients: https://github.com/ethereum/annotated-spec/blob/master/altair/sync-protocol.md * Pintail's modelling of the Altair reward changes: https://pintail.xyz/posts/modelling-the-impact-of-altair/ * Scripts for viewing the current sync committees: https://gist.github.com/michaelsproul/17d1653ace9bd40b7b684a1d7c2a379d
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Critical Theory and Cultural Marxism

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Media criticism of an anti-WEF video by _The Duran_

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK72PDM8jXI Title: Trudeau puts Canada, and The World on notice, 'The Great Reset' is being launched By fixating on a vague WEF policy and extrapolating wildly, the presenters are able to influence their viewers in favour of anti-democratic, far-right politics. For the entire video they are talking about Trudeau's speech, yet they never actually show a single clip from it. For them it's enough that Trudeau simply uttered the word "reset" (not even "great reset") while talking about the pandemic. If you actually watch Trudeau's speech you'll see nothing but quite vanilla social welfare policies: helping the Canadian working class through covid, trying to address climate change and promoting international vaccination against covid. To the conspiratorial, this seems like evidence enough of a "New World Order" plot, which Alex mentions by name at (15:55). However, by their own admission, the great reset (as they imagine it) would never actually work. So why devote an entire 25 minute video to its discussion? The reason they provide is that even if it won't work, it will cause huge amounts of damage and suffering in the process (16:59). There's no evidence for this, apart from pure speculation on the part of the presenters. In my opinion, the reason for the fixation is that it helps advance their causes. Ironically, Duran talks about how the WEF could bring people on-board with the great reset by uniting people with fear (13:13), yet that is exactly what this video seeks to do by talking about "damage" and "suffering". It is designed to create a boogeyman out of the great reset to bolster support for a host of far-right causes: covid denial, climate denial, Trump and Russia. I'll cover each of these below.

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