Farcaster Devs

Farcaster

There are 11,000 Farcaster Hubs right now.

What are the incentives for running hubs?

- Get lowest latency
- Take control of your data
- Redundancy / fall backs

Farcaster Product Studio @ https://dTech.vision 💜 in love with tech 🤓decentralization, fitness and oldschool rap 😎

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Lowest latency and redundancy 

E.g Neynar will always run Hubs

which of those will still be worth it when hubs become very expensive to run?

/new-york by day 🗽 /latenightcrew by night :) Fan of eating tacos and bringing people together, often at the same time 🌮 oh and /untzuntz 😈

Yep, though that won’t happen so there‘s no a valid case for it to be made

In the case of most of these:
- Potential for airdrop

Node runners probably expect some rewards too

https://docs.farcaster.xyz/learn/architecture/hubs#faq

Software Engineer at @rugradio & @decrypt / Created contribute3.com / Automating blockchain (EVM, Solana, Bitcoin)

These have been stopped, I‘ll PR a change

bringing memes to retail @bolide | shitcoins trader | passionate about UX 👩‍💻 

Nope, no current client requires us to run one. Projects not large or latency sensitive enough

Using Neynar hosted Hubs

Jack of many trades, master at being human. 

nkem.dev

 /learninpublic /true

The more the protocol grows, the more expensive it becomes. Will these reasons still be worth it then?