Changes to “The apps pool”
#11 (zoobc.how, 2026-10-26 20:39 UTC) → #117 (zoobc.how, 2026-10-26 21:37 UTC): Seed article updated
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**The per-block allowance.** From version 0.5.8, a block may pay solo wins only up to the pool's recent inflow: the total of solo stakes placed in that asset during the last 5,760 blocks, one day. The excess is recorded on the finished app as an owed payout. At every following block, owed payouts are paid first, in the order of their app ids, out of that block's allowance, until the debt is cleared.
+ > [!example] **Example.** A player wins 40,000 ZBC, and players staked 10,000 ZBC in solo bets during the last day. With no other win in that block, 10,000 ZBC is paid at once and 30,000 ZBC is owed, then paid out of the allowances of later blocks.
− > **Example.** A player wins 40,000 ZBC, and players staked 10,000 ZBC in solo bets during the last day. With no other win in that block, 10,000 ZBC is paid at once and 30,000 ZBC is owed, then paid out of the allowances of later blocks.
A bet is resolved exactly once. Nothing is drawn again, nothing is forfeited to the pool, and the stake is never refunded: the allowance delays a large win, it does not shrink it. Tying each block's payouts to what players staked recently limits how much of the genesis funds any single block can hand out.
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