One of the major developments over the last year or so has been the dramatic reduction in the cost of running Hive nodes and the increased capacity of every node.
Witness nodes can be run on basic PCs and even API nodes can be run on more powerful mainstream PCs.
No need for $20k+ servers like EOS.
That's a great tease for me =) might start running a witness node on HIVE too (again)... especially because I would run it from home, not from somewhere out I don't control.
Yeah I would love to run one from home if our internet wasn't trash lol
Yeah I've seen and really enjoyed that aspect! I think that was a huge improvement by the Blocktrades clan! After those improvements I think the chain has gotten a lot more stable than it was previously which is great.
If our internet didn’t suck I would convert my spare desktop PC into a witness but hopefully when we move we will get better internet!