I’m glad I learned how to run an Ethereum node but there’s no question it is a net negative financial decision

I think Ethereum would be better if the incentive were different

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i homestaked for ~2y during beaconchain launch, before the merge, and managed not to miss any proposals so it was a net positive here, but 100% agreed that the stakes were fairly high and i held my breath every time i went on vacation for a weekend, had several bad multi-day outages and hw failures that could have cost me money if i'd won any elections

i looked into DVT (everyone experimenting with DVT was hella unprofessional amature grade and had far worse uptime than even me) and off-site failover (lmao what is the point of homestaking then?) and ultimately just decided i'd be better off to shut the node down for a while, i haven't been motivated to turn it back on, it was my least favorite homelab service to be responsible for

You can get higher API using an LST with a bunch of different defi protocols,  and also my note just went down randomly and then I missed a Block proposal, so I’m definitely net down now

And now I’m spent probably five hours trying to figure out how to fix it and I can’t get it back up

how is it net negative financially? energy consumption should be low, you probably already paid for good internet, and hardware cost should have been earned back in the first year i think

I’m thinking about spinning up a node as a hobby and a public good for something I believe in.   I don’t see it as a viable side hustle.