It was suggest that I post over here. I'm in the process of collecting donations/bounties to continue building out a 100+ public nodes in 10 different geographic locations. I've currently received donations for 50 nodes and have deployed 20 in 2 data centers. The other 30 just came in today so I'm deploying and coding as fast as the holiday will allow!
Current status:
- 10 nodes in Atlanta deployed
- 10 nodes in Northern Virgina deployed
- 10 nodes in Dallas in progress
- 10 nodes in Chicago queued
- 10 nodes in non-US location TBD queued
I'm deploying new nodes as I receive donations in chunks 3000 nxt. 3000 nxt covers 1 node for 3 months.
All donations will be held in the nxtbase account until the end of March. At the end of March, I'll reimburse myself for all fees occured. What this means, is that ratio of deployed nodes to donations is completely transparent. For example, if my account has 30K nxt, there will be 20 public nodes (10 for donation and 10 donated by me). So my work can be audited by the community. It could be at any given time a node or two is bust, but in general the running public nodes should equal balance/3000 + 10.
So if you would like to support the cause, please donate or pay a bounty to 11243542237777034551. PM if you want to be recognized for your donations!
Thanks for your support!
-Ferment
Nice work.
In the interest of diversification, I have also deployed a node in Ireland, and will deploy one additional node for every 3000 NXT I receive at the address 9060914620736248721
Thanks!