280k nodes now online and a little X thread we’re tinkering with. 
Or, perhaps better put: the centralization resistance of the decentralized web stack. 
Gather 'round, everyone – let’s get some engagement on this new development! 
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C’mon get that r/t’d, re-x’d or whatever
Like it and repost it, add a comment, start an argument, generally make noise.
Cross post on FB and all the other socials
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Looks like you were marked as spam on X, but I replied with a guide for him
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would I have got away with it if I had said “Check out EMAID…” rather than “Buy EMAID…”?
All hail the algorithim.
I doubt it was the mention to buy crypto as that is normal on X. Perhaps a mix of no profile picture, no followers, following few people, discord link.
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Its a brand new account
Please all follow @startled_trout to add to my coolness and relevance.
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Are there statistics and breakdown of main hosting providers used by node-runners?
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FWIW I have 57 now - hope to get to 80 nodes on a 8euro Hetzner VPS.
Subsidise my hosting costs by signing up for Hetzner at Hetzner Cloud 
and get 20 Euro credit
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I would love to but I can’t find an option with enough storage for 80 nodes without paying significantly more than 8EUR
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Err yes - tell me, how many of these 280k nodes have the full 35Gb disk allocated and available?
I’m going to guess at <10%
Running on VPS is not going to be a long term option. OK while it lasts though.
It will be interesting to see the network size fluctuate as RandomRewards ends and “realistic” pricing kicks in.
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I have to admit that my 700 nodes have not. But considering they are so empty, its not an issue for me 
I could do it easy enough, supply 22.4TB of disk for them, but why worry when my /home FS has enough space to run these undersized nodes.
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Those of us running node launchpad on WIN, Linux or MAC have their storage predetermined at 35GB per antnode, so its only the cli crowd that’s able to game their scarcer storage capacity number to fully make use of their ram by running more antnodes. So if one could identify from github download numbers and subtract the node launchpad operator downloads and apply some middle of road number somewhat below 50 because that is the antnode limit, subtracting that guestimate ant number total of likely node launchpad operators from the total number that will identify the size of the cli antnode count which will likely shrink somewhat by xx% before it expands over a much longer period?
The Reward numbers give a glue as to how many nodes each wallet address is running as well, for this last wave its teams to be about 1 token per antnode per day or bit less, at current upload faucet rates?
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Interesting differences between the launching apps/processes.
I’d be interested to understand whether it is good or bad to have more nodes than allocated storage.
From one perspective, having more CPU dedicated to the network seems like a more efficient use of resources (by ant nodes) and more CPU available to the network (as a whole).
However, there could be an overhead in maintaining communications with all those ‘extra’ nodes. Maybe it results in smaller CPU spikes when any one node is hit hard though, which could benefit the network?
In short, it would be to know if running more ant nodes than capacity is a net benefit or not. Killing nodes and deleting their stored data when device capacity is near may be a beneficial strategy all round.
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I will only note that the incentive is to reinvest part of the profit in a larger hard drive and continue to win. That’s the sensible thing to do. I can’t imagine someone earning money and saying “I ran out of space, I won’t buy a bigger hard drive, I don’t want to keep earning”.
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Chime in all the home users who are not technically minded running their nodes and if their disk space is getting low (windows warns them) and have read somewhere that running less nodes solves that problem then they will run less nodes.
Buying disks for them is like thinking they have to get a new computer
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(did I mention I ran out of money when being a student once when my hard drive broke and couldn’t buy a new hard drive + therefore was using my laptop from a USB stick for a while? xD )
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My observations over the last 7 months show several examples of people updating machines to run more nodes. A home user does not mean a stupid person who cannot consider what is profitable for him, not to mention that second-hand computer equipment is extremely cheap. I’m not saying that there will never be cases of people reducing nodes, but my practical observations show that the opposite is significantly more likely.
A second-hand 6 TB HDD is 50 euros in Bulgaria…
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I have done contracting as a side gig helping home users with their computers.
It not that they are stupid or anything, they simply do not think in the same terms.
The network is for using spare resources. That is the design and the majority of the people apart from more tech minded people will not only need some convincing to even run nodes, they will not be looking to add drives in a quest to earn a hundred bucks a month when they are earning 30-90K per year. Or even if on a pension.
To expect the upwards of one billion potential node runners to be buying more drives just to run nodes is a very unreasonable expectation
NOW we surround ourselves typically with the more tech minded and so in our circle of friends and people we talk to will make us think all the world can do these things. The reality is we do not mix with most of the world and we have to realise this.
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This is the story we are telling, practice shows that if money can be made, people will spend money. I remember the Ethereum mining boom when all the video cards were bought out, this will also happen with Autonomi if it is successful.
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