Is it worth running a Waves node?

[metalbean]

I hold very little Waves at the moment so making 1% from my Waves coins might not make sense.

Anyhow, is it worth it financially to run a Waves node, maybe as a pool.

[jekjekman]

If you are looking for a short term effect financially then maybe it will be too small for gains but if you believe that it will grow soon within a months or years then much better.

Most of the early players of a altcoins, the one who mine and invest with their own money and holds until they think the price is right for them to make a big profit is the real winner, nobody can tell you what is best but only you, really. Trust your instincts.

[Emperor of Man]

AFAIK running a waves full node which makes financial sense needs you to have a lot of waves (people should sell you waves, or lease you their waves) and that's a very competitive market. Most income belongs to the waves nodes run by old popular community members who are well-known and have been active in the slack for months.

With a few waves, your best choice is to lease your waves to a big node. It's completely safe and the node can't do anything to your waves except using them to mine. Right now, with a young waves blockchain it doesn't return much profit, but (certainly) it's better than nothing, which is what other coins give you when you hodl them.  

Waves will get golden when they launch the final version of DEX, it gets a lot of ICOs on it, and the network gets busy.

[metalbean]

Makes perfect sense, I'll just lease my small amount of Waves to other miners