# Speed ​​was like 1.6 and stayed, but the reward fell ... Can anyone explain why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Mining\ **Created:** [March 18, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/speed-was-like-1-6-and-stayed-but-the-reward-fell-can-anyone-explain-why/14787 "2017-03-18T21:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zec\_na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/6de8d8/32.png) [@zec\_na](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/zec_na)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/speed-was-like-1-6-and-stayed-but-the-reward-fell-can-anyone-explain-why/14787/1 "2017-03-18T21:20:15Z")
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**Author:** ![crosswire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@crosswire](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/crosswire)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/speed-was-like-1-6-and-stayed-but-the-reward-fell-can-anyone-explain-why/14787/2 "2017-03-18T23:09:21Z")
google difficulty on mining, that explains it all ---
**Author:** ![dlehenky](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/dlehenky/32/1751_2.png) [@dlehenky](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/dlehenky)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/speed-was-like-1-6-and-stayed-but-the-reward-fell-can-anyone-explain-why/14787/3 "2017-03-18T23:19:56Z")
Your payout also depends on your proportion of the pool hash rate. If more miners come onto the pool, then your proportion will drop, so the payout drops. If the new miners are finding blocks for the pool equal to their hash rate, as they should, you’ll be getting less payout per round, but there will be more rounds (a “round” is the time it takes the pool to find a block), so more, smaller, payouts.