Seven hubs fully syncing all 1.08 million messages on mainnet, LFG!  https://i.imgur.com/TgylBvy.png

Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Hi Varun, what does running a hub require? Is it like running a node? Any info would help, thanks.

Is there any incentive (or will there be one) other than contributing to the network health?

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I honestly rather use someone's RPC url than running my own Hub: the data from someone's RPC and from one coming from my own Hub (if I decide to run one) is the same anyways. But that's just one guy's perspective.

There are tens of thousands of non-validating / non-mining ethereum and bitcoin nodes for the simple reason that people get value from the data in a node. 

Farcaster hubs will be no different.

Think there are two other scenarios:
1. Larger clients will likely want their own dedicated hub to service their apps for optimized perf + availability
2. External providers will likely emerge to provide hub access+ advances apis as a service; similar to alchemy / infura for eth nodes

I guess the main problem is having 64TB of space for the nodes. But maybe it is possible to run a "smaller" version.