Painful to resync!
Looking forward to new distribution methods.
Also curious about how to motivate validators to keep working since there is no block reward in RC1.
becouse believe in the project
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?
It's an investment really. For now and I imagine from RC1 to First release, transactions will be few so the network can rely on validators running on home PCs provided you have decent enough hardware and internet speed.
By the time we launch and as the mining starts on block 500,001 we can see the price of the SEMs high enough to handle the expenses for these high end servers for the validators.