RE: What a waste of power!

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Energy costs for running Hive are quite low, because it uses proof-of-stake instead of proof-of-work to determine who gets to produce the next block in the blockchain. Energy costs for running a regular server in the US are probably around $10/month. Witness computation requirements are very low, so these can even be run on very low power servers at much cheaper rates, whereas an API server will consume more energy because it has to handle all the API traffic (so probably around $10/month for those). So I'd guess that less than $20K per year is spent on energy costs for operating the Hive network, including API servers, and the cost could be lower if anyone was trying to optimize that cost.



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Plus free transactions :)

This is pretty much what I expected and thanks for the confirmation.

Out of curiosity, is it at all possible to know how many servers/nodes are supporting the Hive network, or is it blind?

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Public nodes can be found by monitoring the p2p traffic. But people can also run private nodes as well. I haven't looked at data like that in a long while though, so I don't recall the numbers.

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