I posed this question over on CardanoStaking at Reddit today in a little less detail. I have 50k ADA to use to create a staking pool. I am looking for insight into exactly how much I could earn operating my own pool vs just delegating my ADA. I am a smart contract/block chain developer that has b…

No problem, you can plugin the numbers that work for you. I’m not claiming that running a pool should cost this or that and because I haven’t yet seen convincing evidence that $2040 are actually needed to run two simple servers (especially not on RaspbarryPi4) we decided to give our excess back to l…

Raspberry won’t cut it if you plan on staying around for the long run. My 2 ada.

Agreed. “staying around” is the main point. To stay around for the long run almost always means, good and consistent investment of time and material. The rest is marketing in my opinion to attract delegators so that pools can stay around. And when they get the delegators, they need to increase fees …

For the time that ASTOR has been around, RaspbarryPi4 did cut it, then it didn’t for a while, then it did again and I’m quite happy to adjust the setup to wherever the mood of the network takes it. In all case, we can adjust the payback amount accordingly. Currently, it’s quite a bit , with Alonzo it…

I don’t care much about the $2040. That is mainly due to the high minimum fixed fees which will change soon. What is more important to me is that I don’t believe in sustainable pool operation for a couple of dollars a month. We see that in normal business all the time. New businesses starting and gi…

I am against charity pools. Charity doesn’t work. It is a means for the rich to massage it’s gilt but continue to screw the poor. I have seen many a country ruined by charity. In a decentralized system the goal should be for each individual to be able to run once own staking pool. Every work done …

[image] tefera: In a decentralized system the goal should be for each individual to be able to run once own staking pool. ETH2 has a system with currently 138000 validators and still some pending [image] Of course, they also have a limited number of blocks to mint per epoch and a maximum o…

[image] tefera: Charity doesn’t work. [image] tefera: The argument that SPO is just like any other business and one must work hard to succeed is the same argument used by the present economic system, where some are born privileged and destined to stay ahead and others are not. What do …

No! fair playing field. The barrier for participation has to be removed. At the moment the Cardano consensus encourages centralization, by allowing a pre-existing inequalities to determine allocation of future rewards. Right now not only once salesmanship, or how many rich friends one has, but the g…

“…The Algorand platform requires minimal processing power and modest IT resources to join. All online users who possess algos are automatically eligible to participate in block consensus…” As I said on another post this may have difficulty reaching the network effect, but Cardanos goal should be to…

Current Operators....Actual Cost to Operate vs Actual Returns thoughts?

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