Does staking from home make sense in 2024 as a rational action?

Or is it more just a noble thing that enthusiasts can do for the network?

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Hard to justify if you didn't have a lot of validators :/

You will be rewarded ~3.000$/year/validator.
You need to take into account your time, your electricity, your internet connection, your hardware cost and the capital cost.

I will personally shutdown my validator in a few weeks.

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Same here. When my drive fills up in a few months, I'm turning it off. Goodbye 2.5% APR & 39% (bad)luck

Running a validator is the best thing you can do with your ETH.
Hold it ~6y till 100x and you can live off the 1% staking rewards