the devs run at lest 3000 nodes and many of us have more than 30 nodes. So its a lot less than 6925 nodes.
Great project but the sn part is a disaster for people who run them. Lots of time to managed them for almost no rewards. Epic fail IMO.
This simple is not true, every system in the start has some downsides, in case of ZenCash we had to review manually every node payment, to be sure. Now this process of payments is almost weekly as promised. There are Team - people on discord who helping others with problematic Nodes, and server problems.
"Epic fail" is reserved for something that doesn't work, nodes are alive and well, at this momet there are 6900+ Nodes.
Yes small obstacle is the complexity of creating of Secure Node (For those who are not so familiar with Linux), we will work on this to simplify this process, or at least to provide better support.
never said a single word about the payments, not sure why you are even talking about this, yes it was a failure but only because it took way too look to start giving rewards to the people who helped building and testing the secure nodes.
The epic failure is the devs running way too many nodes , the challenges system and the silly rewards for all the trouble/time/cost node admins have.
Community or not, the whole PoW and nodes systems are based on rewards and when there is no money for the miners or the node owners, the coin fail. The sad part in this system is when devs are running so many nodes that they dont have to care for other investors, thats something they cant do with mining, thank god for Zencash.