Please spread the word: there are 0 economic rewards—currently or in the future—for running a Hub.

Only run a Hub if you:
1. Find it fun
2. Find it useful for your project or your business

There's no surprise or gotcha that comes later.

All of the YouTube video tutorials are lying to you about a potential reward.

A reminder: there are 0 economic rewards for running a Hub. 

There won't be a surprise one later.

For example, this YouTube video has 7.4K views teaching people how to operate a Hub on a $50 a month VPS. If you don't actually have a use for the Hub—or aren't in it for ideological / altruistic reasons—stop wasting your money. :)

https://youtu.be/8VLHXRJ6wcQ?t=224

https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xe4780508

is this good/bad for the overall health of farcaster?

Chaotic "Sufficiently Decentralised" Network Participant

Too many Hubs is bad. Makes network slow. 

There are more Hubs than Ethereum nodes right now. Overkill.

I don't think so. Maybe most of them are just using multiple IPs, specially in Germany & 2 Datacenters.

There’s a 1 ETH bounty if you can prove they are fake. A bunch of people have looked and they seem real enough.

Bounties

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Hey @v ,

I prepared a set of data which I believe *maybe* renders a reasonable amount of hubs (over 1500) fake.

Brief:
- Started fetching sample peers using @pinatacloud 's public hub [now I'm banned!!!! ;-)]
- Extracted external data on them using other endpoints.
- Found *Duplication on single ip but multiple ports* 250/7500
- Ran a portscan on 2281, 2282, 2283, & Found closed ports on clients even on gossipsub: 1300/7500
- Got hostnames, Contabo runs plenty of instances
- There are ToDos to go deeper (e.g. is some peer inbound at all?). there are already data about the sync status, numMessages, ...

* Please click *raw* to get the full version of CSV below.

p.s.1: I dont run a hub myself. I was late to bounty
p.s.2: Guess I had seen this bounty, but Dan't reply-cast draw my attention 9d ago:
https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0x4056b451
p.s.3: I'm interested in following this prj to create a data-dashboard/healthcheck/indexer/? for FC hubs.

https://gist.github.com/behkod/d790fbfd5a8ebcef3f863b2312efed06

Thanks for the heads up:

https://warpcast.com/behkod.eth/0x0369833e