## Profits and Expenses of a Kusama Validator <!-- Put the link to this slide here so people can follow --> slide: https://hackmd.io/@DerFredy/SkH2gWxZP#/ --- The following report^{[1](#myfootnote1)} belongs to a small/mid-size ### Kusama Validator Originally this was not intended to be widely disclosed. It could be of help for the core team at the time of measuring the validator community health. <br> <a name="myfootnote1"></a> <sub>_{1: Firefox has some troubles showing images :disappointed:}</suB> --- ## Who am I? - SysAdmin, node operator in front of: **DragonStake** :dragon_face: - Participating in: Polkadot, Kusama, Cosmos, Kava, eth2... - Active member and community focused profile --- ### Validator Architecture. - Active validator: Baremetal Server - Passive validator: Baremetal Server - Sentry nodes - Sentry 1: VPS - Sentry 2: VPS - Alerting/Monitoring: Cheap VPS --- ### Profits ( network rewards ) - Validator commision: 10% - Current elected stake: 18.484k KSM - Total number of validators: 400 --- ### Profits ( network rewards )  --- ## Simple profits maths | Block | Balance | | -------- | -------- | | 2100000 | 17.93 | | 3381600 | 66.93 | ```typescript 49 KSM in 89 Days ``` <br> ```typescript 16.5 KSM / month $175 (monthly gross profit) * no more than $70 if we reach 1000 validators ``` --- ### Lets have a look to Era points Average: 190 era points  --- ### Accordingly, the rewards: Average: 1.6 KSM/era --> 6.4 KSM/day  --- ### Expenses ( monthly ) > Infrastructure budget: $337 - 2x Baremetal servers: $205 - 2x VPS: $122 - 1x Cheap VPS: $10 > Wages - Country minimun wage: - Full time $1,108 - Part time $614 --- ### Thank you! :dragon: You can find me on - GitHub: https://github.com/derfredy - Twitter: https://twitter.com/DragonStake - or email me: dragonstake@protonmail.com