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...In the current version, mining nodes that are elected but fail to report their base compute will get blacklisted and lose all rewards for that round. The new patch will raise the penalty for backlisted mining nodes. If blacklisted, your node is also unable to become a candidate mining Masternode for the next election cycle. Difficulty level drops when a new validation leader is elected. If there is a new validation leader in one mining cycle (the time for generating 3 blocks), this mining cycle will take longer to finish, and difficulty for mining the following block will lower down. (The validators take turns to generate blocks, and a validator which has generated a block is considered the validation leader of that block.) ...