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@thechaingamer
I'm a big believer in running our own nodes. Not on Azure. Not on AWS. Not on GCloud. Running them at home, on hardware we control. This year, at Navigate, my team and I are focused on shipping rebuilt custom PCs that come with presynced, ready to go Ethereum and Base nodes. Useful for developers. Useful for users. Critical to decentralizing the access layer for Base and further decentralizing Ethereum. Minting soon. Exclusively on @base. Would love your support 🫡
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As someone that would actually love to run a node but do not have the technical expertise or a way to assess impacts of running a node on my home internet bandwidth and the type of storage etc.. Would be nice to have something that works out of the box but open source so anyone could review the code/configuration and ensure its not malicious. Actually what I don't understand is if running a node helps decentralize the chain then why is there no incentive to run a node i.e just a simple reward that would cover initial costs and ongoing maintenance? Wouldn't that make it easy to onboard and increase resilioamd diversity? Would anyone be able to explain why this is not done? I think @gnosischain does this, any thoughts from gnosis?
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@thechaingamer
a few things. will try and answer what I know. first off, yes that is the whole goal behind the Navicom Decentralize PC. Making it easy to run a node for non-technical folks. It is a regular PC with a special case that has a touchscreen in the front and an app that we've built that is touch optimized and lets you manage the core things you need to via a touch interface. Behind the scenes it is running Ubuntu. You could actually get it, uninstall everything and reinstall it for yourself if you wanted to, or wipe it and use as a Windows PC or whatever. Like I said, full fledged computer, no limitations. So, there is nothing there that you can't review. Regarding the rewards - the node you'd be running via the Navicom Decentralize, at least, is a full Ethereum geth node + lighthouse and a base node. These are not validators. After the PoS move, you'll need 32 ETH to run a validator which is the type that rewards you for contributions to the network - you're validating transactions. 1/2
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Appreciate the detailed response. So I had it wrong that nodes also help in the decentralisation.. I guess ina way but not in relation to actually running the network but more so to access the network! As for the rewards do you think they would come close to the 2k it would cost to buy the machine over a period of time. I know it's probably a guess but any ideas who else will reward for running these nodes and why? Just trying to understand if it makes economic sense for me to pick it up!
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They do help decentralization for sure! These nodes, the full nodes, are basically a copy of the entire ledger (well not exactly, those would be archives but close enough for this purpose). So, it is critical to have a bunch of full nodes running to increase decentralization. As far as the Navicom Decentralize goes specifically, we're taking 150,000,000 NVG8 tokens to distribute across 10,000 nodes - some upfront, some over 12 months. The PC also comes with self-hosting software like next-cloud + wireguard (VPN) so you can use that to host your files vs. paying dropbox for example. This is in line with our ethos of "own your data". Third, Navigate is all about getting people rewarded for their data and/or compute/bandwidth, so we intend to release updates that can enable people to earn tokens from the PC. Lastly, we're also looking at different partnerships with other base communities to give airdrops to these "node operators". And obviously, you get a full computer :)
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Great! Last Q - in terms of requirements to run this node.. Any minimum like bandwidth and data upload, download limits etc? Also would it impact my day to day activities if I do not have a high bandwidth connection?
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I think a normal internet connection would do. You probably don't want that is rate limited. I've never noticed any impact on my day to day activities, but then again, I have a high bandwidth connection. I think a moderate internet connection should be just fine, but honestly not something I've looked into. I can take a look and msg you with what I find.
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