Dan Romero on Warpcast

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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.

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Andy Jagoe pfp

i already index all of Farcaster in elasticsearch for @alertcaster using the APIs. running a hub adds cost and complexity that's unnecessary today

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brian is live on unlonely

I’m confused Aren’t we supposed to get paid to run a hub?

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woj ツ pfp

1/2 i would pay 0 ethereum already showed that people don’t run nodes if not incentives by staking (EF is trying to fix it by paying incentives out of their own pocket https://esp.ethereum.foundation/run-a-node-grants) BUT…

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A hub doesn’t increase decentralisation. It adds one node to the network as it’s one point of control to be ordered to stop providing the service. Decentralisation happens through dispersion of devices across the geography of the network. It’s why the internet was designed for geographical dispersion post a nuke.

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nixo pfp

Who am I paying?

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balajis pfp

$100 per month seems reasonable for a crypto dev who‘s prototyping a new app. But make it easy to cancel and use “virtual cards” like privacy.com. $10 per month for a student.

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jacob pfp

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

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Greg pfp

As a dev, the ~$30 average answer seems reasonable as a non-dev, $0. I think the easiest way to increase operator count is to boostrap support from people who already run ETH nodes by having a DappNode package like I mentioned in Boston

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Nicholas Charriere

Yes if I get a vanity badge (like signal)

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typeof.eth 🔵

People saying $30 is bonkers to me with no incentive. I'd pay around $5/month? I care about a lot of projects, so paying double digits per project would quickly get hella expensive. If they were $30/month, I'd see if there was a way to sponsor one.

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phil pfp

I wouldn't pay to run a Farcaster hub if I could use the Warpcast client for free

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robin :•> pfp

tough without economic incentive imo would be nice if my annual farcaster subscription is bundled in, gets me a badge / premium features, etc.

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@neynar is doing exactly this for $30/mo, felt pretty fair

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Tayyab - d/acc pfp

1-click, 100% automated. Probably somewhere between $5-10 a month

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Charlie Harrington

Might be more compelling to me if doing this also let you “save” your own casts forever since otherwise they will be eventually deleted. Also wondering about potential “pihole” like benefits (ad blocking etc) from running your own hub.

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christopher pfp

my barebones EC2 Hub + Postgres napkin math: - GCS 1 TB data and 50,000~ users. - storage is ~$23/mo for 1 TB. - data egress costs ~$12/mo for 100 GB transfer. - operations cost ~$5/mo for 10M Class A and 50M Class B ops (write/read). total monthly cost is ~$40, and yearly cost ~$480

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Joe Petrich 🟪

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Corbin Page pfp

Would do up to $100/mo or so 👍

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Ben - [C/x] pfp

I wouldn't pay to run one. No need for a copy and I'm sure there are others who would benefit from having one and would pay for it.

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