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collections/farming/3nodes.md

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+# Available 3Nodes
+
+We are still working on the exact logistics, the look and feel can be different, but minimal resources will be the same.
+
+
+### 3Node Silver
+
+![](img/smallest_3node.png)
+
+- 16 GB Memory
+- 512 GB SSD
+- min 4 logical CPU cores
+
+Will cost less than 500 USD.
+
+### 3Node Gold
+
+![](img/bl_silver.png)
+
+- 32 GB Memory
+- 1000 GB SSD
+- min 8 logical CPU cores
+
+
+Will cost less than 1000 USD.
+
+### 3Node Platinum
+
+![](img/bl_7840c.png)
+
+- 64 GB Memory
+- 2000 GB SSD
+- 4000 GB HDD
+- min 16 logical CPU cores
+
+
+Will cost less than 1800 USD.
+
+### 3Node Datacenter
+
+- put your own 3Node in a datacenter of choice, make sure you have great and cost effective reliable connectivity to internet.
+- The Farmer buys their own hardware, ThreeFold supports the farmer to get up and running.
+
+### 3Node Dedicated Rental
+
+- rent a node in a dacenter, make sure you have good capacity in that datacenter. Companies like OVH and Hetzner come to mind as reliable and cost effective.

collections/farming/farming.md

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+![](img/bl_7840c.png)
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 # ThreeFold Farming
 
 Farming means a person offers compute, storage and network capacity to the network
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 - A farmer earns rewards upto 300 USD per month (for platinum).
 - A farmer is helping his/her community to get access to sovereign Internet applications on an unbreakabale co-owned Internet.
 
-## Farming
-
-
 ## Income for the farmers
 
-A farmer can chose their own pricing but recommended are:
+The farmers make capacity available and specify their price.
 
-- 1-5 USD per person using the 3Nodes of the Farmer.
-  - 50% of this fee goes to farmer, 50% to farming cooperative
+The recommended (default) pricing for a twin and storage/network capacity is:
+
+- 1-5 USD per person using a digital twin (a freeflow self) on a node
+- 10 USD per TB Transfer per month
 - 5 USD per TB Storage per month
-  - 50% of this fee goes to farmer, 50% to farming cooperative
-- farmer defines price per TB transfer
-  - max 5 USD in Europe/US, max 10 USD elsewhere
-  - 80% of this fee goes to farmer, 20% to farming cooperative
 
+> 80% of these fees goes to farmer, 20% to farming cooperative, exception for a twin which is 50-50% split.
 
+## Rewards for being a Farmer
 
-### 3Node Silver
+Typically a Farmer can earn the investment of their node back 2 to 10 times over 5 years if succesful.
 
-Will cost less than 500 USD.
+> For a [simulation based on twins with storage and bandwidth check here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D6Q3Yav_SS356zAILwN4SrmqwYfLibT3E6oWrVPU4c8/edit#gid=170998100)
 
-### 3Node Gold
+## Farming Pools
 
-![](img/bl_silver.png)
+Some farmers will chose not to manage, market or operate their 3node, in that case they can join a farming pool.
 
-Will cost less than 1000 USD.
+A Farming pool takes care of
 
-### 3Node Platinum
+- marketing the capacity
+- giving support to the userbase (developers)
+- managing the best possible pricing
+- monitor all nodes and optimize uptime
+- monitor available bandwidth and make optimizations where possible.
 
-![](img/bl_7840c.png)
+If a farmer uses a farming pool he/she will have to give a part of their reward to the farming pool, each farming pool can decide how much that needs to be.
 
-Will cost less than 1800 USD.
+## Advanced: Compute Box
 
+The more advanced farmers can chose to define compute boxes in their node. A compute box is an amount of CPU, MEM, GPU, SSD as specified by farmer. When users select a node to deploy a VM on they can use one or more of these compute boxes.
 
-### 3Node Datacenter
+Example a node with 64 GB or mem and 2 TB of SSD and 24 virtual cores.
 
-- put your own 3Node in a datacenter of choice, make sure you have great and cost effective reliable connectivity to internet.
-- The Farmer buys their own hardware, ThreeFold supports the farmer to get up and running.
+- 15 compute boxes each: 
+  - 4 GB of memory (60 GB total)
+  - 120 GB of SSD capacity
+  - 6.4 logical CPU core (oversubscription of 4, which means user can max use 4x CPU capacity if system allows)
+- when a user choses the full machine, then he/she will have reserved all compute boxes capacity which means the machine is now dedicated reserved for the user, the hoster specifies the discount for this typically 50%. On a dedicated machine the user has full access to the GPU.
+- min 1GB always needs to be left as buffer for memory and 10% of SSD capacity
 
-### 3Node Dedicated Rental
-
-- rent a node in a dacenter, make sure you have good capacity in that datacenter. Companies like OVH and Hetzner come to mind as reliable and cost effective.
-
-### Remarks
-
-> For [simulation check here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D6Q3Yav_SS356zAILwN4SrmqwYfLibT3E6oWrVPU4c8/edit#gid=170998100)
-
-<br>
-
-> the exact specs and look and feel can be different, but minimal resources will be the same
+How does it work:
 
+- When a developer wants to deploy a virtual machine, he/she needs to define the required capacity and will be able to make a choice based on these compute boxes, each compute box has different base specs (mem, ssd, gpu, cpu) and reputation, the developer can now make a selection of how many of these compute boxes need to be given to the virtual machine. This defines the monthly price which will have to be paid as well as capacity available to the VM.
 
 ## Remarks
 
-### Free Incoming Internet Traffic.
+### Network Rewards requires Unblocked Incoming Internet.
 
 "Incoming internet traffic should be enabled to earn rewards from network bandwidth.
 
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 - IPv6 public ip address available
 - IPv4 public ip address available (harder)
-- Portforwarding or UPNP Incoming (we need tutorial how to check)
+- Portforwarding or hole punching support for UDP.
+
+Mycelium will try a lot of tricks to allow traffic to go to your network.