Provider FAQ

It’s hard to say when as it depends on a lot of factors, since Golem is a marketplace. The hardware you’re offering needs to align with a requestor's demand, and secondly, pricing is also an important factor. If you don’t receive any tasks, try reducing your price. To get a feeling of other peoples' pricing with similar specs, you can use the stats page at: Golem Stats.

A great start is to follow or undercut the median pricing of the network, which you can find under the Provider > Pricing Analytics tab.

You can also join our Discord to discuss with other community members how to price correctly.

No, it’s not required.

Yes, that works perfectly fine.

You can always change the pricing of your node, but it won't affect the current agreements that you've settled with a requestor. It only affects future ones.

Yes, you can check out Golem Stats.

No, you can not do that. You can set up multiple providers though.

CPU/h is pricing per utilization of a core. So if a requestor is using 4 cores, and you have a CPU/h pricing of 0.1 GLM, then it would cost the requestor 0.4 GLM to use those 4 cores for an hour.

If your node meets the requirements specified in the requestor's demand, then it’s randomly selected along with other nodes on the network.

None defined currently. Golem accepts everything as long as it’s a 64bit x86-64 CPU. The requestors can specify additional requirements, depending on their individual needs.

Here's an extremely simplified explanation: Layer 1 is the uppermost layer in the blockchain which contains all information in transactions. Layer 2 solutions are further down and don't include as much information and thus it's cheaper to send transactions because you don't include as much info on the blockchain compared to Layer 1.

tGLM – test currency that you can obtain for free to test your requestor node. These tokens have no real value.

GLM – real currency that can be exchanged for cash.

Yes, Golem cleans the task data directories via a default schedule of 30 days. However, you can configure this schedule yourself via ya-provider clean –help.

It all comes down to if KVM access is available on the hosting platform (e.g. AWS doesn’t support KVM, while OVH cloud does).

Please check here:

`$HOME/.local/share/yagna/yagna_rCURRENT.log`
`$HOME/.local/share/ya-provider/ya-provider_rCURRENT.log`

Yes, Golem is an ERC-20 token.

The most common reason is to support requestors in testing their applications for free, so they can progress with migrating their application to the mainnet quicker.

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86/x64 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V).

Golem uses this module to create a VM where tasks on the provider are computed inside.

Shut the provider down and run the installer again: curl -sSf https://join.golem.network/as-provider | bash -