My second node XXV2 appears stable and has survived an increase of commission (2% to 3%) as well as a change in nominators - the 300K guy is gone but now I have one 100K and one 200K nominator.
Both of these were big challenges because I didn’t know if the node will be able to survive them, especially the second change - which could have been impacted by the first - given the tiny validator stake the node has and the the fact that it can’t get elected without 200K-300K xx in nominations.
Plan for February 2022 ¶
I put my notes for January 2022 in Network Notes, and here’s my plan for February (subject to changes, of course).
XXV3 ¶
If you look at average validator commission in January 2022, it’s been around 13%. I provide same service while charging only 3%.
Recently the number of validator slots on MainNet has been expanded to 350 and nodes currently in Waiting still aren’t nearly as competitive as XXV2.
Considering that and the smooth sailing of XXV2, there’s no reason to suspect that market couldn’t handle another node similar to XXV2.
I will therefore consider adding another node (XXV3). Now, this cannot be done without a third wallet address which I don’t have, so this can’t happen until xx coins can be moved.
That’s why I can’t know if I’ll be able to do this in February or not. But in the case this becomes possible, I’ll stand it up right away using the same recipe:
- Above-average “value for money”
- Same operation and management principles that you can see in my About pages
Infrastructure enhancements ¶
Again, see Network Notes for more on that, but managing two pairs of nodes involves a lot of repetitive tasks and XXV3 would make that go up by 50%.
I plan to further improve my infrastructure by the time I get a chance to launch XXV3, so that I can add a node in hours and do that again when necessary.
Depending on how well I improve by then, I could launch more than just XXV3 because once coins become movable I could stand up more than just one additional node.