Nicolas Kokkalis (Nicholas) on October 9, Pi Network Developers (developer channel) replied to Pi friends Node related questions

On October 9th, Nicholas responded to several questions about nodes asked by Pi friends on the developer channel, as follows:

Question from Pi friends: In response to what you ( Nicolas ) said before "One of the goals of the Pi testnet is to determine the rewards that a node should receive for running a certain node. If we collect the relevant data needed to determine the most appropriate incentive mechanism, Testnet nodes will There won’t be any mining rewards.” But is there really no benefit to being a node?

Nicolas Kokkalis replies: Just a few thoughts here: The same nodes from the testnet will transition to the nodes on the mainnet. Nodes will gain reputation during the testnet, so people will later trust nodes with greater reputation on the mainnet.

You may not understand the meaning of the above dialogue. I translate it in vernacular:

Pi friends ask: Are there any benefits to testnet nodes?

Nun Russ: Running a node in the testnet stage does not actually have any benefits, and it will not pay dividends, but the testnet node is the predecessor of the mainnet node. If the testnet node is running well, the mainnet node will be trusted by more people. You have a higher chance of paying dividends.

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Pi Friends Ask: Hello Dr. Nicholas, I have a question, how many nodes/supernodes do you need to handle 10 million Pi users? May I know that the number of stable nodes is already high? thanks.

Nicolas Kokkalis replies: We will provide more updates on testnet nodes at next week's conference. But to answer the question about how many nodes are needed for 10 million pioneers: the more the better, of course, the more nodes the more decentralized the network. In theory we could have just three nodes and still support many pioneers, but ideally we would have more.

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