Any casual check of the blockchain at any moment will show that Splinterlands custom JSONs are on every single block in huge numbers.
The total number of transactions is usually between 20 and 40. Then there's about an equal number of virtual operations that the blockchain does on its own without being initiated by any user. What percentage of the 65 kilobytes are we talking about?
Look at the blocks: https://hiveblockexplorer.com/
It's very obvious that this can not continue forever. If we had other dapps like Splinterlands on chain the blocks would already be fully tapped out. At some point or another Splinterlands will be way too expensive to play directly on-chain and they'll have to move the bulk of these transactions to second layer or simply move them to the private server where they will not be transparent.
Aggroed mentioned that running a Hive node costs about a couple of hundred dollars a year. An RPC node is a bit more expensive. That was around last Christmas. That is not too expensive. A top 20 witness still makes more than $10,000 a year even at this kind of low HIVE prices.
You are part of a witness team. You should know how much running a witness really costs. How much?
I find this to be the most valid question.
What's the cost in ratio to amount being paid to block producer? Is so significant that block producer cannot easily afford to increase their capacity if need be?
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Running witness node only costs a few hundred dollars PER YEAR at present. An RPC node (a node that DApps make remote procedure calls to when they interact with the chain) costs a bit more.
A block is signed once every three seconds or 20 times a minute on Hive. A top 20 witness signs a block thus roughly once a minute. In a year, there are 60x24x365 = 525,600 minutes. The block reward is 0.261 HIVE at present. Thus a top 20 witness gets about 137,200 HIVE as block rewards. The price of HIVE is 0.115 USD at present. Thus a top 20 witness makes about 16,000 USD a year at present. Relative to the cost of running a witness server, witness rewards are plentiful.
Hive should be prepared for onboarding millions of users. But after all these years I would say that some attention to should be paid to how all those users should be onboarded.
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