RE: SMTs Release Dates!
A full node costs $700-$1,000/month, and soon to be much much more. It's not cheap, yet a witness node costs $60 and pays anywhere from $0 to $100K+/year. Not saying top 20 shouldn't run one, but it shows the flaw in the system.
A full node has nothing to do with witnessing, and this is coming from some who manages 4 full nodes. Full nodes are a dev project, and a project the size of DTube shouldn't be using public nodes and should have their own, just like any large projects, especially with 2M free delegation.
Public nodes serve one purpose, they allow small projects to bootstrap and avoid the crippling expense of a full node allowing them to bootstrap. Once you get large enough, you should be using your own private full nodes to sustain your project not leaching off the very few public full nodes that are available and overwhelmed.
It shows the complete hypocrisy of the witnesses, and the total reliance of the ecosystem on steemit inc. funny thing is that a bunch of top 20 witnesses will blame and point fingers at stinc whenever the opportunity arises.
In my opinion, witnesses are cancer and giving out 15% of printed steem tokens is absurd when you think about what witnesses provide to the community: zero. It’s just like organized racket
I agree. This needs to be addressed.
Hi, why full node cost so much? what bandwidth/month please?
Because of the ram requirements (512GB+)
oh, and mayby that can be put on large ssd to do the ram work?
because im interested to host such from home, no way i can have so much ram.
Using ssd would require 4 week or longer to replay.