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Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Topic OP
Economy of running an ETH node
by
AppliedOptimal
on 07/11/2019, 06:35:01 UTC
According to this article, max annual return rate (for validators) ranges from 1.56% to 18.10%. The costs will be around $120/year for a beacon node and $60/year per validator client.
So, you spend about 180 USD for running one validator and stake your 32 ETH, which is 6K USD at the moment.
If you get 1.56% per year, you will get 93.6 USD per year for your 32 ETH, which is about 0.5 ETH. With this rate, you are basically losing money, 180 USD versus 93.6 USD, considering ETH price is the same.
If you get the maximum rate because there are not many nodes, you will get 5.79 ETH per year, and you have to be running your computer 24/7.

Not sure if this is worth it if you run one node only. Ideas?