<p>There is no such penalty at the protocol level.</p>
<p>However, you will probably get called out on Twitter :)</p>

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Hi, thanks! Can you explain what actually happens in this scenario? My guess is that there's a "slot battle" but in this case the VRF key would be the same for both nodes, so I'm not sure how the protocol handles this situation.
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<p>Is there a penalty for having two block-producing (BP) nodes in a pool that try to mint a block in the same slot? For example, I'd like to bring up a new BP node in another region, but that results in two serving BP nodes for a brief moment, and just maybe that moment just happens to be the leader slot for the pool. What's the worst case scenario under this condition?</p>

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Is there a penalty for having two block-producing (BP) nodes in a pool that try to mint a block in the same slot?
# Is there a penalty for having two block-producing (BP) nodes in a pool that try to mint a block in the same slot?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-06-16)

Is there a penalty for having two block-producing (BP) nodes in a pool that try to mint a block in the same slot? For example, I'd like to bring up a new BP node in another region, but that results in two serving BP nodes for a brief moment, and just maybe that moment just happens to be the leader slot for the pool. What's the worst case scenario under this condition?

**Tags:** stake-pool, cardano-node, block-production, operator

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-06-16. Score: 1

There is no such penalty at the protocol level.

However, you will probably get called out on Twitter :)

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Hi, thanks! Can you explain what actually happens in this scenario? My guess is that there's a "slot battle" but in this case the VRF key would be the same for both nodes, so I'm not sure how the protocol handles this situation.  

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