Witnesses like smooth and marky saying that running anything on top of the steem node will be too expensive? Muahaha. They earned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of crypto in the past, and could literally run the whole network on their own with their profits.

What are you talking about?

I've made 10,358.765 Steem Power as a witness for the last 15 months combined. That's worth about $2,900 USD. I can't assure you, it isn't even remotely worth it financially.

If Steemit Inc can't run the entire network on $2,000,000/year, I don't see how I am going to run it on $2,900 over 15 months.

Now before you respond saying at $7 Steem it's worth x, I haven't powered down, so I'm stuck holding it all at the current $0.28.