PIP-7 Consensus Rule Change – Validator/Servicer Split & Validator Consolidation

Hello, let’s suppose I have many POKT, around 500k-1M. What do you think will be more profitable, being a top 1000 validator or having multiple service nodes with 15.5K POKT?

I have done some math and, with the current number of nodes in the network and assuming there are only 1k validators, being a validator looks more profitable:

For 18k nodes, 17k are service nodes and 1k are validator nodes.
The service nodes earn 89% of the block rewards, and the validators get 11%.
For each 1000 POKT of block rewards:

  • 890 are distributed among 17k service nodes → 0.0523 POKT per service node
  • 110 distributed to the 1k validators → 0.11 POKT per validator

Is my math correct or am I missing anything? I’m not sure if the RPC service rewards are included in the block rewards or not.

Many thanks