Harvesting and wallet questions

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#1

  1. Which is more efficient and safe, local harvesting or delegated harvesting, from a technical point of view?

  2. Which would be more profitable for the users?

  3. Which would be better for the whole NEM blockchain: having the average users locally harvest or having them delegate the harvesting to the remote server? Which would be better for the whole NEM blockchain: having users use the nano wallet or having them use the standalone wallet?

  4. Which wallet to use if I want to locally harvest, nano wallet or the stand alone? How about delegated harvest?

  5. Can I delegate harvest if I use a standalone wallet? Would I still be delegatedly harvesting if I shut down my standalone wallet?

Sorry I’m new to this so I ask a lot of questions and edit my post a lot lol. Hope a pro can help me answer.

#2
  1. Same efficiency in terms of harvested blocks, both is safe.
  2. In terms of network quality it doesn’t make a difference as long as you havest on a local node.
  3. Harvesting on a local node is better for the network since it adds a node to the network. The wallet you use for harvesting doesn’t matter.
  4. You can use either wallet.
  5. Delegated harvesting only means that you delegate the importance to another account. You can do that with a local node or a remote, with node nano wallet or standalone wallet. After delegated harvesting is started, you can shutdown the wallet and it will continue to harvest on the chosen node…
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#3

Hello, I’m joining this conversation because I had similar questions!
I would like to extend to know about the requirements for local harvesting nodes.

  1. Is there anything that will spike while local harvesting ? (CPU usage, RAM needed, hdd I/O, network bandwidth ?)

Thank you for the detailed answer already!

#4

No, harvesting takes almost no resources. Running a node obviously does take some resources in terms of ram, cpu ,… but it is moderate.

#5

Thanks BR! I think the delegated harvesting feature is mentioned all the time it might decrease the possible number of nodes and hurt the network because most average users will just choose that option so they don’t have to run their machine 24/7. Should have put more importance on the local harvesters.

#6

Also in the installation guide it said only the standalone version could become full nodes or supernodes. I didn’t know the nano wallet could become a super node too?

#7

We got the supernode program to ensure a strong network.

Standalone version = NIS + NCC not Nano wallet. NIS the the entity that makes up a node that helps the network.