I am staring at my server bill and dont know what to do.
I am just about breaking even, tough choice.
Bow out or burn cash.
1 week in… nuts.
Made my choice, bowing out. Adios servers.
I still have my home rig, sorry for the folk that dont have that.
That really wouldn’t matter.
But the IP is for a server that resides in that data centre. It provides bare metal servers, so that scenario is highly unlikely. extremely unlikely
We got to remember, that while we may complain about this and that about how some things actually are at the moment, the potential has nothing but increased.
And the potential has been the thing that has gotten so many of us investing. Now more people are going to find out that potential.
Everyone who has a computer, has something though.
Wouldn’t it be possible to allocate the storage needed, fill them up with cryptographic signatures and request that as a proof-of-are-you-alive ?
Running 10k nodes would become a different game.
But what if nodes only ever become 1/4 full and not the expected 1/2 full (32GB). Then its just wasting space and better to have extra nodes than unnecessary wasted disk
Very recent action on BitMart suggests you are on to something.
I sold a couple of dozen at 0.25blah and it immediately shot up to 0.264 
Can you please keep doing that? 
I like you @Toivo but there are limits…
hmmm good point.
No, you don’t really like me… You just say so 
Are you just estimating based on current ANT prices, or also considering probable ANT price increase if you hold for a few months / years?
I don’t think it’ll take much hype / demand etc to push prices to $1+ in the coming months… but we’ll see.
I didn’t start any servers for myself because I was hoping that the hordes of newbies could organically grow the network and get excited with the immediate earnings.
I didn’t see this one coming though.
This 
, its not fun when I am speculating on future value especially when whomever is earning all these tokens can dump for months and years.
Its all good.
I’ll concentrate on my home rig, I have been looking at upgrading it anyway.
Thats far more fun.
One week of the network being live, and equilibrium has nearly been reached.
Seems I was correct, and the hyperventilating was an emotional, not intellectual or technical, overreaction.
Let me add, that the general public, or even crypto public, has been vastly under informed about this potential for many years.
Are you using a vpn to access bitmart?
Time to fix our coinmarketcap listing?
we have a 14M marketcap on coinmarketcap
we have a 124M marketcap on coingecko
There is also a different logo present on coinmarketcap compared to the red type that is shown on coingecko and dexscreener/website. I’d say use the red one for coinmarketcap as well
That is an equilibrium where there are millions of unnecessary nodes that exist only to capture random rewards being paid out from the team’s holdings, and where a large portion of those rewards have been captured by a small number of people with significant resources. Probably not ideal.
While it’s had it’s beneficial outcomes as David has said, there’s no doubt it’s at least a questionable use of resources. There may be technical reasons it’s good to test massive empty node numbers, but there are also economic realities to consider & balance.
It would be great to hear the teams thoughts on it.
I think there are legitimate reasons to question the benefits of the rewards, but I agree that there has been an emotional response, likely based on token price. If price were pumping despite the same network situation, I think many comments would have been different.
