diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8f8acaf..721cc39 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "podping-hivewriter"
-version = "1.0.1"
+version = "1.0.2"
 license = "MIT"
 authors = ["Alecks Gates <alecks@podping.org>", "Brian of London <brian@podping.org>"]
 maintainers = ["Alecks Gates <alecks@podping.org>", "Brian of London <brian@podping.org>"]
diff --git a/src/podping_hivewriter/constants.py b/src/podping_hivewriter/constants.py
index 95dab14..1e05fdb 100644
--- a/src/podping_hivewriter/constants.py
+++ b/src/podping_hivewriter/constants.py
@@ -10,6 +10,3 @@
 
 # Operation JSON must be less than or equal to 8192 bytes.
 HIVE_CUSTOM_OP_DATA_MAX_LENGTH = 8192
-# This is a global signal to shut down until RC's recover
-# Stores the RC cost of each operation to calculate an average
-HIVE_HALT_TIMES = [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 6, 9, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15]
diff --git a/src/podping_hivewriter/podping_hivewriter.py b/src/podping_hivewriter/podping_hivewriter.py
index 15aa21d..c796bb4 100644
--- a/src/podping_hivewriter/podping_hivewriter.py
+++ b/src/podping_hivewriter/podping_hivewriter.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
     STARTUP_FAILED_UNKNOWN_EXIT_CODE,
     STARTUP_OPERATION_ID,
     CURRENT_PODPING_VERSION,
-    HIVE_HALT_TIMES,
     HIVE_CUSTOM_OP_DATA_MAX_LENGTH,
 )
 from podping_hivewriter.exceptions import PodpingCustomJsonPayloadExceeded
@@ -399,11 +398,11 @@ async def failure_retry(self, iri_set: Set[str]) -> Tuple[str, int]:
         failure_count = 0
 
         while True:
+            # Sleep a maximum of 5 minutes, 2 additional seconds for every retry
+            sleep_time = min(failure_count * 2, 300)
             if failure_count > 0:
-                logging.warning(
-                    f"Waiting {HIVE_HALT_TIMES[failure_count]}s before retry"
-                )
-                await asyncio.sleep(HIVE_HALT_TIMES[failure_count])
+                logging.warning(f"Waiting {sleep_time}s before retry")
+                await asyncio.sleep(sleep_time)
                 logging.info(
                     f"FAILURE COUNT: {failure_count} - RETRYING {len(iri_set)} IRIs"
                 )
@@ -414,7 +413,7 @@ async def failure_retry(self, iri_set: Set[str]) -> Tuple[str, int]:
                 trx_id = await self.send_notification_iris(iris=iri_set)
                 if failure_count > 0:
                     logging.info(
-                        f"----> FAILURE CLEARED after {failure_count} retries <-----"
+                        f"FAILURE CLEARED after {failure_count} retries, {sleep_time}s"
                     )
                 return trx_id, failure_count
             except Exception: