Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
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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woj
@woj.eth
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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Wesley— oss/acc
@wslyvh.eth
I don't think that's true. Lots of people ran their own nodes, even before staking with POW, without any direct incentives. People who like to play around, experiment with these things, contribute to the health and values of the network, etc. The grants program is mainly to expand diversity (and doesn't provide stake)
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woj
@woj.eth
yeah of course there are *some* people running the nodes but it's not a rational economic behaviour but i doubt there is many people who do that — there is only around 6000 active ethereum nodes (https://ethernodes.org/), how many of these are not used for staking or run as infra for businesses? 1/2
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woj
@woj.eth
2/2 i am actively looking for some good research on this, I'm fascinated by any network that can be run by individuals i feel like 6000 nodes is close to nothing (esp with the mentioned above geo distribution) for a network that secures $500B of assets with potential to grow https://warpcast.com/woj.eth/0x8f61e4
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