When will it be possible to run a supernode?
just trying to figure out when exactly they will become available, or around what time?
I also wanna know about that. In Whitepaper, it says Supernodes are scheduled to be released to main-net end of May, but do we get rewards from the beginning, or do we have some kind of test time, and get rewards from certain block? And is it open for everyone to build Supernodes from the beginning, or do we need to register something to start from the beginning?
Yeah good point. I'm a miner so would be good to know exactly when the rewards get changed from 88% block reward down to 70%.
I'm sure alot of the people mining between coins to whatever is most profitable will drop off when the block reward changes, thereby reducing difficulty and probably keeping current net reward levels roughly the same, but will still be interesting to know and see what happens.
Now total reward pool for node operators is 20% and this is main big change on our system. As you can see we have increased treasury to 10%, we are preparing our own treasury voting system, and the increase of 1.5% is for overcoming voters apathy, we are going to paying voters to vote. Those funds are reward for voters, because we want to provide positive initiatives for joining this ecosystem.
Details of the reward mechanism to voters will be released with more details of actual voting system which is in prototype mode IOHK right now.
Those changes are made as response to increasing popularity of secure nodes, and as result of multiple feedbacks from this system, and from community itself.
https://zencash.com/assets/files/Zen-Application-Platform-Whitepaper.pdf In short the end of May. More info about this soon!
Don't worry about this decrease of miners reward, in a long run this will increase value of Zen because this new platform will enables more capabilities to be added and for node operators more opportunities to earn aditional income trought different services on this platform. You must admit this is really good proposison of a value.
Node operators are very important stakeholder group! Especially this new class of nodes recently announced as Super Nodes, enables ZenCash to become Platform instead crypto currency exclusively. Secure and Super nodes adds more value to this project.
Full implementation of this application system with Super Nodes is expected to be launched in Q4 of 2018 with a prototype available for testing at the end of Q3.