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The online Sentry node count had just reached a three month high, even as the community debated key prices and payback time. He offered a simple explanation: as the token price fell, keys became cheaper, bringing in new nodes. Yesterday’s puzzle now had a plausible explanation, though it proved no improvement in returns.
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The online Sentry node count had just reached a three month high, even as the community debated key prices and payback time. The Night Watchman knew operators’ routines and knew the count alone could not reveal why people were buying.
He offered a simple explanation: as the token price fell, keys became cheaper, bringing in new nodes. To some, that strengthened the case for a proposal to lower the entry barrier. Others pointed out that affording a key and accepting the ongoing cost of running it were separate decisions.
Yesterday’s puzzle now had a plausible explanation, though it proved no improvement in returns. The Night Watchman planned to keep listening to how new operators calculated their costs and whether they stayed online. The value of a split still had to be argued over the longer term economics.