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I'd like to understand how uncles reward is calculated.

https://ropsten.etherscan.io/block/4447

https://ropsten.etherscan.io/block/2560

We have two calculated blocks, both of them have 2 uncles, but one block has 8.125 Ether, which other has 6.25 Ether. What have I missed?

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The uncle reward calc is:

(U_n + 8 - B_n) * R / 8

In the first example, there are two uncles, U1 and U2. The uncle number of U1 is 4445, and the uncle number of U2 is 4446. The block number is 4447 and R is 5.

The uncle reward for the first example is the sum of the rewards for each uncle:

U1: (4445 + 8 - 4447) * 5 / 8 = 3.75
U2: (4446 + 8 - 4447) * 5 / 8 = 4.375
                              = 8.125

One block is the parent's generation, the other one is the grandparent's generation. An uncle loses basically 20% for each generation it is lower than the current block.

For the second example, the uncles are in the same generation but the generation is further away (three blocks lower), so the overall uncle reward is lower:

U1: (2557 + 8 - 2560) * 5 / 8 = 3.125
U2: (2557 + 8 - 2560) * 5 / 8 = 3.125
                              = 6.250
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  • I have one question, why in consensus/ethash/consensus.go , in recordRewards() there is a division by 32 at the end of the loop ?
    – Nulik
    Commented Feb 18, 2018 at 20:22

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