@biasnarrative, have you considered working as a Witness? It would be a triple benefit for the Community, because:
a) a seed node (or even a full one) would be handled by a deeply honest and vigilant Steemian;
b) you'd carry on sharing the worthy data you collect and process, but sending it to a wider audience;
c) I gather you'd keep for yourself the portion of the blocks production rewards you see as being fair (on the basis of your needs), and direct the remaining rewards to a community project, or the general pool.
Currently waiting to get my server up. I have 32GB ram and an old Xeon 2670 8 core hyper threaded CPU.
I need a new motherboard, than I am thinking about creating a witness. I do not want to rent a server like most other witnesses do.
I will vote for you. let us know when you are ready.
If you write a post about your Witness "application", it could serve to fund the motherboard acquisition. I would for sure resteem and support it.
Interesting thought.
Let me look into it @Ijatz! Thanks for the support!