I just wish that there would be a decent degree of decentralization at play too.
I suppose whales have kind of “one system”, that they tune to the max. And if any of them drop for any reason, that’s not very good for the network.
Hopefully there’s at least some variability amongst whales in what kind of systems they use. But I suppose that with time, many of them will find a way, and gravitate to the similar kind. Cheapest VPS, best connection, etc.
FWIW, not that I’d consider myself a whale, (IMO that’s tens of thousands of nodes or more) I have variability and put quality service first.
Some examples:
In my opinion if Autonomi doesn’t pan out, humanity is absolutely cooked, so my priority is serving the network even over profiting from it, and I’ve made less profitable technical decisions in alignment with that belief. Maybe that’s why I’d be in a much better position if I had just put the infra capital into buying tokens instead of running nodes. (sorrowful lol)
Just be mindful that the network itself is huge, self healing network, which can recover from disaster with built in redundancy.
In short, the network doesnt need ZFS, RAID, multiple internet connections, etc.
If it makes it convenient for you, by all means use them. However, if it is a cost/overhead, I’d strip it out personally.
Just so everyone is aware, the fastest and most user friendly way to aquire (or sell) ANT is to use: https://app.debridge.finance/ (its a dex)
You can swap usdc (any network), sol, eth, any coin basically directly into ANT
I don’t think it has been mentioned here
Off the top my head ~800k ANT per month. There is a document somewhere.
I am not 100% will need to find it.
I’ve been thinking some and I support that it would be good if the team recalculate the rewards until they find a good balance between size of the network and the supply of the token, to favor a healthy network and token economy.
if you find it, i’d be interested to know the total amount of coins emissioned for this purpose and timeframe.
I personally would have sold at least 50% of my emaid months ago if i was aware of this incentive emission rate. It seems an insane amount, especially if you consider initial investors from when omni maid was worth a lot more in .sats.
Back in the day if you held 10k maid you were considered a whale…
This is pure to incentivize network usage? as in free money to nodes without uploaders?
Emissions have not started yet, they will start when the network is declared persistent.
This currently is “random rewards” being paid to nodes return quotes to their random file quoting
Free BTW. 
Does the random rewards follow that schedule or is it set? Do you know the amount?
See post above. This is an interim “random rewards” until network is declared persistent.
No clue, it just seems to be a set amount twice daily spread out across the nodes that respond correctly and paid twice daily to the account the nodes are using
I wish more details were given beyond the couple of times it was mentioned in relation to the network not being persistent yet
Not strictly free, you have to be an active participant running working nodes helping the network.
That’s my point. It’s easy to say it’s “free money” until you put in the expense and work to do it.
It’s not free. Newly issued tokens take their value from everyone else’s already issued tokens. Thus making the cost to upload higher.
I really wish all this money printing would go away, it’s unproductive and scammy … and will only facilitate a cascade collapse scenario.
Are block rewards free bitcoin?
well yeah, but, even free btw can destroy the entire marketcap if large amounts are dumped into the liq. pool. If i had the hardware i would spawn up 100k nodes and sell 95% for profits, until there is no incentive left. That is risk free, passive income
