/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>9555868

> 1: Rent VPS
> 2: Set up SSL certificate and domain
> 3: Sync blockchain
> 4: Set-up node

It gets quite complicated if you are not familiar with linux and command line. Managed hosting is the way to go if you have no experience. Will safe you time and only be a 2-3$ per node difference from hosting your own. Here's some tutorial though:

> https://blockoperations.com/how-to-build-and-operate-a-zencash-secure-node/

>>9537502

For this to achieve critical mass you will need to have at least 3-4% of the population to own a skyminer. Something which is absolutely unrealistic given that 3-4% of the population in the US own crypto or even have enough money to their name to buy such a miner. I would be thoroughly surprised if they'd even achieve 0.5% of the global market cap. A kickstarter project selling some mesh network router for 20$ has a higher chance than this pos. Not saying that skycoin fundamentally sucks, but critical mass to decentralize the internet is nothing more than a cash grrab. Probably hard to understand if you are a brainlet tho.

>>9437192

Well, I have 35 of them so don't expect a unbiased opinion. But I think we'll see incentived nodes make a comeback in the short term. It is a great way to earn passive income, and if you have some decent bags all that is required is for Zen to go x2 and you'll be set for the foreseeable future with payouts from supernodes (I know I will be).

>>9437200

They manage the VPS for you and point it to your staking wallet which you control. Coins will always remain in your own wallet.

>>9437250

Yes, they do handle network computation, there is a whitepaper just on nodes

> https://zencash.com/assets/files/Zen-Application-Platform-Whitepaper.pdf

Supernodes will handle elevated network computation in the future.
Like sidechain and DAG transactions.

>>9352363

Personally I am quite neutral on the entire debacle but you gotta recognize the short term potential of all options:

> A) You do nothing, let ASIC take over in the short to medium term, but throw out all supporters who have been securing your network since its inception.
> B) You fork away continously like Monero is intending to do, stifle innovation and in the long term likely end off in a worse situation than the one you tried to solve - But please all your GPU miners
> C) Give GPU miners who are sitting on huge inflationary investments the time to recoup some of the costs while they are given the chance to switch over to superior tech (purposed miners, i.e. ASIC, FPGA, CPLD's).

That's a little black and white, but I guess anyone could get understand the potential outcome of either option. Option A sets you up for the long term, option C for the short to medium term. Option B doesn't make sense to me, but maybe somehow Monero will surprise us all. Anyways, with the community being stupid, and people literally comparing ASIC's to nazi's invading poland. I think that option C might net the best possible outcome for adoption. Unless everyone is on board with ASIC's invading poland. Which at the current does not seem to be the case.

>>8924920

I figure that when we start spiking up beyond the ATH I will start selling my rewarded ZEN in chunks weekly. Along with the ZEN I do not need after I have set up my third Supernode. So if we do spike after June/August, then that is where my ROI should be too. Any funds going out of these nodes will seek some other passive income methods. Feeling quite comfy with my plans. Lets hope these devs do not fuck up my game.