While there is competition to become a delegate for the main chain, there will be plenty of demand to run delegates for the sidechains.
Thank you for your answer; however it is
earning Lisk I am interested in, and since
it's almost impossible to become a delegate of the main Lisk blockchain, can you point me to a sidechain which will allow me to earn Lisk for securing it?
. We currently do not have anywhere near 101 people running testnet nodes.
https://testnet-explorer.lisk.io/delegateMonitorJust click on "Status" to do a sort and look at the block of red dots. You can start a testnet node tonight and turn one of those red dots into a green dot with your name beside it. You wanna become a Lisk Mainnet Active Delegate when forging rewards eventually get turned on? Do your testnet homework
now. Go to lisk.chat, start hanging out at #testnet, and direct message joel that you want to run a testnet node. The people running testnet nodes now are the
only Liskers who are going to have sufficient experience to run mainnet nodes soon.
I won't get paid for running testnet, right? from what I see I'll be stuck there forever:
I am looking at the delegate monitor - there is just no way I can get in: already 632 delegates on standby! Almost all current delegates are the same guy (or seems like it): some guy called genesis - seems this one guy whale takes up everything.
my first impression of DPOS is not positive. No room for the little gal I am.