Need Help Building a Community to Run Nodes for our New Project

[FrogeGod]

Hi there fellow CryptoKings and CryptoQueens.

My partner and I are building a project, it is still in the ideation phase, but we've both been in the scene for a while. Our project is serious to us, but it may seem a little gimmicky to those on the outside. I will get more into the details of the project as we continue to finalize our mechanics and build architecture.

What I really want to get at is how to build a community of individuals who would be willing to run our nodes. I have no experience community building, I also do not know how to maintain such a community. If there are any tips, insights and (fingers crossed) individuals who have run nodes for various projects please comment.

I am very grateful for any insight that an open discussion on this topic can generate.

Thank you!

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it is certainly best to start by paying someone for that kind of support. there are many who are mainly engaged in this type of business, running node services, mining pools etc... it’s better than depending on someone’s goodwill.
you also definitely need some kind of promotion on targeted groups dealing with this part, such a Reddit threads, Discord groups. For example, there are plenty of discord channels of masternode coins, which are neglected, but there are still some people who are following and waiting for some updates. Mostly these are people who have run nodes and already have experiences with it, I suppose that they may be your target. (this is just example)
Certainly, after the promotion, early birds will respond to you if your project has a perspective and something unique something that will attract attention.
I used to be interested in such things, but most of the projects are one or two man's show which after a while they get bored and abandon the project, so your project must be very good with clear potential if you want to attract serious supporters and build community.

[Ucy]

Hi there fellow CryptoKings and CryptoQueens.

My partner and I are building a project, it is still in the ideation phase, but we've both been in the scene for a while. Our project is serious to us, but it may seem a little gimmicky to those on the outside. I will get more into the details of the project as we continue to finalize our mechanics and build architecture.

What I really want to get at is how to build a community of individuals who would be willing to run our nodes. I have no experience community building, I also do not know how to maintain such a community. If there are any tips, insights and (fingers crossed) individuals who have run nodes for various projects please comment.

I am very grateful for any insight that an open discussion on this topic can generate.

Thank you!

Community members could rank/reward one another based on how honest & often they run their nodes, and also how much useful services their nodes provide to the community. The rewards can be both manual and automated. Members could manually report issues that break list of community rules or give good rewards to those that help the community. Those who provide very important solutions to problems for the community without breaking good community rules/principles get higher rewards
You can check this out for more help:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5298832.msg55796204#msg55796204



You could also create/include a safe Decentralized Identity System your members can use to verify and safely store their encrypted unlque identities. They would use the public keys from Identity System to safely verify that they have real identity on a secure, immutable platform, which is the Decentralized Identity System
This identity system can help the community prevent alot of problems, like spam attacks, impersonation, committing serious crimes under false/hidden identity, etc
A user's public keys from the identity system can be used anonymously, or with acceptable names attached to them. Any reports, rewards etc to a user's public keys are automatically linked to the user's real encrypted identity stored on the decentralized identity system.

Part of the solutions to building a sustainable community is to have both automated and manual system for reward very useful evidence-based contributions that do not violate the good rules. Part of automation job is to checks for those who applied to be rewarded for contributions. Users with very useful contributions but without rewards could apply for rewards that must be attended to within a specified period , once others members are unable to find fault in the application, the user automatically get the due rewards for specific kind of reward he/she applied for. Members that find faults in the application get part of the reward that's meant for the user.

Safe decentralized identity system would help make things like this fraud-proof.

[hugeblack]

Almost 90% of people are interested in profit and rarely read about the currency project or the revolutionary idea behind it, so try to focus on the financial aspects in terms of having a person specializing in such matters, i.e. controlling supply and demand, which creates good levels of profits for everyone who manages the contract .


In short, we need to pay some and entice others to profit.

[vv181]

I couldn't agree more about incentivizing node owners. Try to research about what others project doing to push the community adoption toward their project. As an example see how Bitgesell rewarding their node runners.

Node incentive program:
Every week (1008 blocks) 20 nodes would be randomly picked and awarded $20 each.
For this particular moment it means that every new node would get this bonus, until network grows!

https://bglcontest.bitaps.com/nodes

Also, since you are still in the ideation phase you might be want to look at Idena project mechanism. It might not be related to community building but it could be a reference for you.

[BlackHatCoiner]

What I really want to get at is how to build a community of individuals who would be willing to run our nodes. I have no experience community building, I also do not know how to maintain such a community. If there are any tips, insights and (fingers crossed) individuals who have run nodes for various projects please comment.

Running a node for a recently started project won't attract anyone, except if you pay for it. I doubt if anyone will be willing to run your node among all those projects. If it's really something special that isn't looking towards profit and your whitepaper enthuse me, I may be your volunteer, as long as it's not expensive to run such node.

Although there are few exception such as Bitcoin where people usually run full node to perform community service or help Bitcoin network, it's not reliable option unless your coin is very popular.

Running a Bitcoin node doesn't help only the network. It helps you turning your wealth private. Back in 2009, it may was pretty much like the case with this project, but now that it's being taken seriously, running a node can actually be very profitable for you, whether someone pays you for doin' it or not.