Currently, 137 addresses are earning ANT. Of these, 21 are selling immediately or have sold in the last 30 days (some of them are moving to another address before selling):
Interesting analysis. If I filter for wallets which earn the >100 ant per single payout transactions, it is only the following wallets that receive those larger amounts in the last few days:
0x73B548474B878d8451dBB4D0Fe7B4F2C3b890BDC
0x99879D8820Fa56B7fbE8BEA8D03BC07fD1d3c83D
0x9CE733F428E33EFf4fbaB9905892148B82b5E54F
0xc7F2D7eDD1fFE2480617488DF7db83175611346e
0xE4c603AaD345CA71589f2714d06AE063e2efaA34
In sum, in the last 4 days, these earned roughly 53000 ANT out of the ~65200 emitted ANT in total (by the emission contract) . A few of these consistently sell their ANTs within 1-2h of payout receival, leading to the question if it is not one entity holding multiple of these wallets, while other wallets wait for a few days between each sell.
That’s a bit disappointing, but quite predictable.
Some people must be using resources that are available to them at very little / no cost to be making it worth doing at scale & these prices!
Emissions were always bad economics in my opinion, but at least the benefit is being spread around to anyone who’s willing to buy at these subsidised prices rather than being hoarded by a savvy & patient big player.
More like between 20 and 50 node runners. There are people with 5+ separate addresses, 1 address for each of their machines. Some of these people move everything to one address at a certain time and that’s how we know they are the same person.
Thank you for doing that. It is very enlightening.
Yes, I suspect a lot of the nodes are run by people with access to resources that cost them nothing. I could tell you a funny story about someone Ethereum mining on DC based Nvidia A100s ‘to test them’. There are many opportunities for someone who unfettered access to lots of equipment, admin access to the network and the trust of weak management who understand little of what goes on behind the big white door.
Yes, I think it was inevitable with this incentive scheme it would end up like this. With people incentivised to run as many nodes as possible with nothing to stop them being under resourced or to disincentivise them from stopping them all at once this is what you get when a small number of people run a lot of nodes.
It looks like there are some big node runners who don’t care at all about the health of the network because they shutdown hundreds of thousands of nodes at once and can’t keep them stable when they are running. Yesterday the network seems to have shrunk from ~1.5M nodes to less than 1M in 3 hours.
Unless everything is literally free for you it’s a fool’s errand to try to run nodes for profit. I think some people have realised that. It’s a shame they’ve caused such instability and I think data loss as well. The Scratchpad for Atlas just isn’t retrievable anymore and some of the files I uploaded have chunks missing.
Hopefully the data in terms of what this node instability has done to the network is ultimately helpful.
I’m running a couple of servers with a couple of thousand nodes on each but they are adequately sized and the nodes are stable. I stagger the upgrades and don’t just shut them down all at once.
I’m keeping the payouts rather than selling them. Because I have the hope and expectation that the price will be higher in the future and it will have been worth the expenditure on obtaining them this way and I can afford it as something fun to do and support the network. I realise the most cash efficient way at the moment to obtain tokens would be to just buy them but where’s the fun in that.
Ultimately the most useful thing I can do just now is keep pushing RPi4s running 10 to 50 nodes (depending on the networking available) into my friend’s houses. 3 so far. It’s not going as quickly as I’d have liked but it should pick up pace soon.
Which file do you believe has suffered data loss ?
Post the address and I’ll see if I can download it. So far there has been some downloading unavailability but that is fixed now with the latest release.
Out of 40Gb of test files I have not seen a single lost chunk
Better go get some FUD started @blvd go earn your pay check
today than when I was trying downloads with the previous version last night. I regret not seeing the message about the Hotfix before posting this morning or I’d have tested again.
All the files I was trying with are now working. Sometimes they need a 2nd or even 3rd attempt.
Even the Scratchpad for using Atlas is working again! And it’s faster than ever…
So it looks like someone shutting down 1/3 of the network was a successful ‘unscheduled resilience test’. I hope lots of useful logs and metrics have been generated.
I’m checking all the time and not a single lost chunk it’s pretty epic considering some of the mass restarts and kills of nodes we have seen.
In last release some chunks were temporarily unavailable at times by it they usually reappeared in 2nd or 3rd retry which should hopefully be fixed with this release.
absolutely retarded a single guy is able/allowed to spawn up 1/3 of nodes on this network and straight up dump his mined coins into our thin liquidity, it seems like he is not going to be stopped for the foreseeable future.
How is this helpful and why isn’t this looked at : - )
Emissions are completely out of balance compared to our avail liquidity, another thing team should look at and fix.
These things are at least equally important to network stability, why?
Narrative follows price, not the other way around.
He helps me with cheap tokens. I am very grateful to him. Plus if you look at his addresses he gets a lot of payments for data storage, which means his nodes are real.
