Also curious about how to motivate validators to keep working since there is no block reward in RC1.
But why are you going to cancel block rewards? Who will be the validators than and why?
I like this project and will be validator even without block reward for 5-7 months.
Well, to keep a basic V, you need 4 cpu, 8GB and 100Mbps. But in order to make network strong, you need double it, which makes almost impossible to use home PCs. Decent VPS with hardware like this costs at least 400$ or more per month (not shit vps). So if there is no reward for V, even believers won't use top hardware to secure the network. That's why I'm curious how would dev deal with this. Maybe DEV team will set up most of the V by their own?
Minimum is 1 core and about 2 GB now.
There are a difference between hosters hardware and software, but on average this is enough.
Not to mention dedicated servers with 1 core there are no problems at all. Semux client at this stage consumes not so much resources.
And 1-2 core VPS with 2-4 GB costs about 20$ in a month.
With this config I have a lowest missing rate for the last days.