Validators who learned they would receive no reward shut down their nodes rather than waiting for the incentivization phase to end, so a reward scheme that visibly excludes participants loses their contribution immediately.
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Other validators shut down their nodes instead of waiting for the end of the incentivization phase when they realized that there was no reward for them.
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