I, and probably a lot of people, would be interested to know what it actually takes to run a witness, from machines to power cost, and time ofc. Normies like myself don’t know anything about this nerd business and might just think it's something easy and fun, which I’m sure it isn’t.
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I read yesterday that it cost around 1000 bucks, but most of these guys don't need to power down because of this. Something else is going on in the background, trust me.
It's a lot of fun, usually during SteemFest :-) also, many of the witnesses loves what they are doing and we have here a whole great piece of technology so amazing environment for all crazy weirdoes to develop for Steem and themselves.
But true, there are also hard times... more on that when the dust settles down ;-)
You are basically all crazy masochists and I'm grateful for you. I'll be here sipping wine and posting selfies while you do the hard work behind the scenes.
Well how much do a normal person get payd to pay their bills? A good full witness cost +- 250euro a month. You must take free of your day job that must be paid to cover costs and some to cover steem costs.
Most witnesses allways powered down.
That's why steemit inc also powered down to cover costs.