Quote from: crymoonpto10k on July 18, 2018, 04:47:36 AM

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Quote from: crymoonpto10k on July 09, 2018, 07:57:26 PM

Quote from: chemal on July 08, 2018, 07:55:24 PM

What's the ROI for running a Tierion node now? And is there any way/place to check nodes count?

There are currently 8,256 nodes on the network, you can check in the node UI if you have a registered node (just go to registered nodes IP address and use wallet address as password).

The current time to a reward is 8256 nodes / 48 rewards/day = ~172 days (5.7 months)

With a reward size of 1500 TNT, the current 8256 nodes, and a minimum balance of 5000 TNT, the yearly ROI (in TNT) is ~63.7 %.

The dollar amount ROI is a little more tricky and dynamic to calculate as it is a function of the number of nodes on the network, future reward amount / reward frequency, and VPS hosting costs.

On the short term, I think it is easiest to look at it as a 30% ROI in TNT in ~6 months for $30 in hosting costs ($5 x 6 months). Basically if you are a long term holder and believe in the project and higher future token prices, its not a bad idea to run some nodes. If you are looking for a month to month stream of income, at this point the risk would outweigh the benefits with such a long time to reward and price volitility over that time period.... but this mentality applies across the board for crypto mining in general. Historically there have only been a few 3-6 month windows where mining is extremely profitable; in between booms, you're lucky if you can break even.

Very accurate calculation. I would emphasize last two sentences of your post - lots of masternode investors hope to get kind of fixed monthly revenue. The fact is you still have to have a strong confidence in the masternode coin for longer term due to price fluctuations. Wink

Someone created a calculator for node profitability... it also tracks the current number of nodes on the network and current price of TNT: https://tnt.solutions/

Useful calculator, the chart shows clearly the interest in chainpoint nodes lately especially when the price is now that ridiculously low. There is no point giving up nodes now although I understand it may be unfomfortable to wait half a year for one reward Grin