Dealing with fluctuating gas costs

[john-light]

There are some maintenance action rewards, such as the 0.18 DAI reward for drafting jurors, that may end up not being worth the cost of gas to perform these actions if the gas price increases beyond a certain amount.

It would be good to brainstorm ways to deal with this. The most obvious is to regularly check in on gas prices and have the governors adjust the rewards accordingly. However, increasing the rewards in response to increasing gas costs also means that the baseline costs for operating the court increase, which should also result in an increase in the subscription and dispute fee prices. We should also think about how we can adjust these fee prices while preserving good ux for subscribers and dispute participants.

[sohkai]

For disputes themselves, there is some implicit, inherent interest from the plaintiff in invoking this action so potentially, it is something they would want to pay for and call anyway, even if it wasn't worth the expenses.

Some other actions, like processing deactivations and rewards, also have this implicit interest built into the receiving party so they would ideally also call them.

I think the only difficult fee to cover over time is the heartbeat, but it could be funded through some of the fees that are sent to the Court itself.