Assume it was 1-click and 100% automated to deploy, run and update a Hub.

How much per month would you be willing to pay to run one? 

No direct economic incentive other than you know you're supporting Farcaster decentralization and you have your own copy of the network.

OK, if you're answer is you wouldn't run one.

$44/month if I got a special NFT each month

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

@dwr.eth @v Jacob’s proposal is a great idea because it signals who is both public-spirited AND technical enough to run a hub.

Such a person may be a good target for future airdrops — by you or by others!

This may be the right way to bootstrap a network with digital assets.

Not by issuing a token which is instantly liquid. That just attracts short-term ppl.

But by issuing “sweat NFTs”: a non-transferable NFT which *may* be a target for future airdrops, if the network works, but no promise of that.

NFT mining!

The combination of (a) paying a little bit of money (eg $44/month) and (b) spending a little bit of time (eg dev setup) to get (c) sweat NFTs for bootstrapping a network is  kind of like being a micro-investor or micro-employee, but without any promise of future return whatsoever.

You get NFT tchotkes. That’s it…

In a sense, Jacob’s proposal turns running a hub into something similar to very early Bitcoin mining.

“Run this code to support a network. In return you get this currently worthless digital asset. But you may be rewarded some day of the network gets big.”

Note that the reward / airdrops may come from others.