The most important thing that hive has to offer is a very extensive list of people willing to help in many ways. Tech support, testing, developing. All of this with users who have been on the platform for many years and ones that are just discovering it for the first time. Let’s hope we can keep the pace and scale appropriately! I hope new witnesses aren’t priced out of action by the cost to run a good node and we don’t get new ones starting. I don’t want to end up in the EOS situation where the exchanges control all of the witnesses.
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One of the major developments over the last year or so has been the dramatic reduction in the cost of running Hive nodes and the increased capacity of every node.
Witness nodes can be run on basic PCs and even API nodes can be run on more powerful mainstream PCs.
No need for $20k+ servers like EOS.
That's a great tease for me =) might start running a witness node on HIVE too (again)... especially because I would run it from home, not from somewhere out I don't control.
Yeah I would love to run one from home if our internet wasn't trash lol
Yeah I've seen and really enjoyed that aspect! I think that was a huge improvement by the Blocktrades clan! After those improvements I think the chain has gotten a lot more stable than it was previously which is great.
If our internet didn’t suck I would convert my spare desktop PC into a witness but hopefully when we move we will get better internet!
Could not agree more with you. And having already tried the EOS side too, I completely understand the cause. One of the mistakes about these blockchains is to base the costs of the infrastructure on the supposed price increase of the token. And that does not always run that way. So, for me, the costs of supporting the network should scale with its usage (hence the RC being monetizable is a very important step of this blockchain).
In regards to more witnesses, that is (should be) independent of the network infrastructure. At least towards the voting part of who produces blocks. And once the RC delegation is here, things will change. To be honest, any business can support the network even if they don't produce blocks. In my view, they are separate things. Although who is a witness has the additional burden to also (if possible) support the network with API nodes, etc (although is not mandatory, usually people will only vote if you do have because of the size/decentralization of the current network).
Example: Splinterlands need to run big API nodes for their game backend to be quickly reacting to the blockchain changes and because they also need to have control in case other members of the network have network problems. Hence this makes a business like theirs effectively support the network (being a witness or not). Aka anyone can point at their Hive API for blockchain broadcasting.
For now, and like you said, it's very important to help one another. Who is here for already some years have that responsibility if one would like to see the full potential of this community. Everyone can help, their way, with what they know most about. And that's the beauty of this community, diversity!
Enjoy! ;)
Great example with Splinterlands. They indeed have to run a badass cluster of witness nodes to ensure that if anything, their servers are running in tip top shape. They help us a lot!
I don't know a whole lot about the RC delegation stuff yet and how they could monetize that but I'm sure I'll get up to speed in the near future. It sounds intriguing! I'm glad that I'm powering up lots of hive lately, going to help get me more RC power and hive power to swing around!
I think the diversity on here is remarkable for sure! There’s people from all walks of life and can help people in a litany of ways. I’m helping my guild mates in Splinterlands learn the game but at the same time also learn how to post, interact and do things here on hive. I want them in my guild but since they are on the chain already, I think it would be great to get them hooked on the communities and all that as well!
Yes, please!
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