If you use Core v29 or v30, they bring new costs: the costs of helping relay and store spam, mostly for the sake of scams, and also to help various brc20 altcoins compete with bitcoin. These costs include up to $11.40 per year in bandwidth. Consider running Knots to save money. https://x.com/ProofOfCash/status/1982903129323778295
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Paying bandwidth for your node? You sound like someone who hasn't learned from repeated AWS outages.
everyone with a node pays for the bandwidth it consumes, including home node owners
for some people, it is a cost they already pay for, and if you have an unlimited plan, the cost does not increase
but even in that case they still pay for the bandwidth consumed by their node