Thanks for the clarification.
A couple of questions:
(i) If we had already purchased the capabilities of 1300 nodes, why didn’t we deploy all 1300 nodes? Seems a waste of tremendous money ; given that we provided generous rewards for nodes to essentially do nothing for a year. Specifically what does it mean for "the nodes to exist "? That they are simply racked in the data center, not powered on?
(ii) Now that we are onboarding the legacy 800 nodes, i am assuming that they will NOT be conforming to AMD-Milan. So when we say "[quote=“Luis, post:68, topic:9170”]
to ensure that the network is growing with nodes supporting SEV-SNP attestation.
[/quote] ", are we to presume that that growth will be in addition to 1300 nodes?
(iii)For how long are we liable for the cost of first generation nodes? These are the MOST expensive (counter to Moore’s law). Is there a plan to phase them out? Given Moore’s law, we should be replacing these nodes with next generation nodes.
Edit: see answers here (The State and Direction of Decentralization & Nodes on the Internet Computer - #90 by Luis) by Luis.