SN36 discusses emission mechanics, build queue bottleneck

Team clarified that emission is a continuous stream to the throne-holder, not discrete payouts, with a 0.05 composite-score margin required to dethrone incumbents. A separate infrastructure issue emerged: multiple miners experienced 26+ hour queued submission delays, attributed to stuck build workers and capacity constraints. Team escalated affected submissions to core for manual intervention and outlined structural fixes needed (more workers, fast-fail validation, queue visibility).

• •Winning miners earn 2–5 hours of full emission per run continuously, not as lump payouts
• •Dethrone threshold is 0.05 margin; incumbent keeps earning even on tied runs
• •Build queue backlog: 26h+ pending submissions stuck; multiple miners affected
• •Recommended fixes: expand worker capacity, add queue position visibility, auto-escalate past N hours