Our plan is to scale Farcaster to 1 million daily users. The network must handle 10,000 transactions per second while staying credibly decentralized. That's the same order of magnitude as Visa.
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Running a node should cost < $1000/mo. You should be able to use a provider like AWS to run one, and download the entire state of the network to a single machine.