/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54996853
They never were. Pic related from years ago.

Users pay the contract operator, the contract operator pays the nodes.

>>53208011
>everything listed here is free for everyone:
That includes the feeds Compound is using (and paying for).
All the major users are paying for the feeds, they're called 'sponsors'.

>>19382442
>Until contract creators start to get charged for the data they want
>Node operators are getting paid by Sergey right now, not the contrac creators. Yes mother fucker, with your ico and 700k dump money.
Chainlink users are being charged right now.
See pic.

>Zero income, zero revenue.
Chainlink was never meant to produce income or revenue for the team.

>>19328399
>Those are nodes running chainlink's free price reference feeds
Let me stop you right there and direct you to pic related.

>Post mainnet a few nodes were onboarded, not many since that summer.
lmao, there were 17 nodes in that pic in August, and there are 30 now.
So the node count nearly doubled.

Quit trying so damn hard.

>>19180036
>Where is that money coming from?

>>19128506
It's not just Synthetix.
Not sure why you'd even think that.