====== Penalties ======

==== Emergency End Stake Penalty ====
If you cut a stake short, you will pay a penalty.  The longer your stake, the bigger the potential penalty. The early you cut a stake short, the higher the penalty. If you have served less than half your stake, the penalty will eat into your principal.

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=== Example #1 ===
  * 100,000 Hex staked for 100 days
  * Emergency end-stake on day 12
  * Assume interest received is 2000 Hex for this example
  * Half of committed days is equal to 50. This variable must be 90 or more, so 90 takes its place.
  * **<color red>Penalty</color>** **=** (2000 Hex) ***** (90 days) **/** (12 days) **=** **__<color red>15,000 Hex</color>__**
  * **<color green>Hex Received Back</color>** **=** 100,000 Hex **-** 15,000 Hex **+** 2000 Hex **=** **__<color green>87,000 Hex</color>__**

=== Example #2 ===
  * 2,300,000 Hex staked for 3600 days
  * Emergency end-stake on day 80 of the stake
  * Assume interest received is 120,000 Hex for this example
  * **<color red>Penalty</color>** **=** (120000 Hex) ***** (1800 days) **/** (80 days) **=** **__<color red>2,700,000 Hex</color>__**
  * **<color green>Hex Received Back</color>** **=** 2,300,000 Hex **-** 2,700,000 Hex **+** 120,000 Hex **=** **__<color red>0 Hex</color>__**
  * In this example you would lose all your Hex. You can never go negative and "owe" Hex

=== Example #3 ===
  * 1,000,000 Hex staked for 210 days
  * Emergency end-stake on day 110 of the stake
  * Assume interest received is 39,000 Hex for this example
  * Also assume interest received at the 50% mark (105 days) was 38,000 Hex
  * **<color red>Penalty</color>** **=** **__<color red>38,000 Hex</color>__**
  * **<color green>Interest</color>** **=** The interest accrued after the 50% mark, **__<color green>1000 Hex </color>__**
  * **<color green>Hex Received Back</color>** **=** Principal plus the interest accrued after the 50% mark, = **__<color green>1,001,000 Hex </color>__**

==== Late End Stake Penalty ====
There is a 14 day grace period to choose either “End Stake” or “Good Accounting” once your stake ends
After 14 days, you will suffer a 1% weekly penalty for every week you do not “End Stake” or select “Good Accounting”. Learn more about these two options at the bottom of the [[what-is-staking|staking page]].

=== Where do Hex penalties go? ===
50% of all penalties paid get returned as interest to stakers.

The other 50% is sent to the origin address

Reference the wall of shame on [[https://hex.vision]] to see past history on penalties people have paid when ending their stakes early.