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As things stand, I have signed around 85 blocks and received a reward of 0.434 SPS each. I received my first transaction on 07.03.2025 at 19:00:24 and since then I have just signed 85 blocks - at the beginning of the records my validation node was in the overall ranking of validators at place 48 - which means that I receive significantly fewer blocks to sign than someone who is at the top of the rankings. After at least a few people from our guild voted for my validation node, my validator node was able to slide up to 29th place, which in turn means that I effectively get a block to sign more often and accordingly receive 0.434 SPS as a reward more often. Unfortunately, the support of the SPS whales who vote for my validator node @louis.sps is still missing here. What a pity, really.

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My node now receives about 42 hours of rewards, but how much is that currently and is it enough to cover the costs I have to pay monthly so that I don't have to pay extra for decentralization? Let's just do the calculation with ChatGPT, because it's faster and more effective at math than I am. I'll put the current USD value after the rewards so that it's easier to understand. So, in 42 hours I signed 85 blocks and received 36.89 SPS (0.224 USD) as rewards. This results in the following values:

- SPS per Hour: 0.878 (0.005 USD)
- SPS per Day: 21.08 (0.128 USD)
- SPS per Week: 147.56 (0.899 USD)
- SPS per Month: 632.4 (3.856 USD)

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These rewards are simply for being part of the system with purchased hardware. So practically speaking, thank you for providing hardware, running our software and here are your additional rewards - besides what you get either way for holding a LICENSE token. (I could just use PeakMonster's service and get my rewards and not help with validation).

So, with my current ranking of about 29 in the validator list, I make about 3.85 USD for paying and running hardware. However, my current costs for the hardware alone are at least 15.00 USD per month. That means I would effectively be paying $11.15 USD each month just to promote decentralization for the SPS validators. Well, how can this be improved? Maybe give less to the top validators / rebuild the pool and give less to the LICENSE holders? Or simply remunerate decentralization better than is currently the case. 

This is not meant to be a rant or an appeal - I was curious to see how the rewards develop for providing hardware and lo and behold - it is paid for - at least in my case - where exactly is the break-even point? I have no idea... I assume that only the top 10 are break even. Why don't I have an API running? Well, on the one hand I can't think of a cool domain name and on the other hand I want to know if I'm going to break even or not.

Well, anyway - make up your own mind about it.

Regards
Sadly-Non-Top-Validator louis.sps