[comodore_]

The hardware requirements wrt memory to run a validator node are just insane https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqs

[asdf3331]

Remember when people claimed that the bitcoin block size couldn't be increased because we would sacrifice decentralization? Well look where we are now...

[jtsiskin]

~$11,000 a year on GCP according to https://gcpinstances.info/?cost_duration=annually, for just the instance, if you commit up front to a full year. Then add on storage and ingress/egress traffic. And this is without the GPU requirement yet.

[anonymoushn]

Or like 1/10 of that at Hetzner

[lucasyvas]

Holy, you weren't kidding. I had to read it three times to make sure my brain got it right.

[hanniabu]

Exactly why it'll never be decentralized (centralized team and private investments aside)

[fuzzybear3965]

Yeah, it's true. The claim/theory/working hypothesis is that technological scaling will reduce the cost of a node over subsequent decades so that running a node becomes more affordable, increasing the decentralization of the network.

[wmf]

It would be interesting to calculate $/TPS instead of using sticker shock as a metric.