title_body: Will small stake pools find it hard to cover running costs? &quot;Stake pool operators are rewarded for running the protocol in the form of incentives that come from the transaction fees and from inflation of the circulating supply of ada&quot;, as mentioned at this docs
  In case a small stake pool does not get elected for block creation, how much of the running costs would be covered assuming that minimal hardware confguration is employed on the stake pool?
upvoted_answer: If the stake pool does not create a single block in the epoch, it receives no rewards.
  If it is elected and is able to create at least one block, it receives the fix pool fee, which is right now minimum of 340 ADA plus the margin fee.
  Minimal hardware configuration is debatable, but you can run a pool as low as 1 EUR (about 1ADA with today prices) per epoch.