Fees and credits

Most charges are set by the post rate: the base charge for publishing 1 KiB, or 1,024 bytes, of a post, before the protocol support fee. The rate starts at 1 BFT per KiB and rises gradually as more public content is published on the network. It’s the same for everyone, and the app shows you the exact charge before you confirm any action.

A 0.5 percent protocol support fee is added to posts, replies, transfers, tips, subscriptions, and Space payments. It supports protocol maintenance and official software. Bigfoot Governance records the current fee.

The part of each new post’s or reply’s charge that covers the network’s work on it. For a post, it’s the whole charge apart from the protocol support fee. For a reply, it’s the part that doesn’t go to authors, usually a quarter. Node operators and validators share it, as described below.

Burned BFT is removed for good. Nobody receives it.

Reading, searching, submitting footnotes, reviewing footnotes, and registering a node.

The post rate for each KiB, counted to the byte, with a minimum of 256 bytes, plus the protocol support fee. The shortest post costs a quarter of the post rate, and a 2 KiB post twice the rate, each plus the fee. Everything in the post counts toward its size, including its sources and signature.

Half as much as a post of the same size, with the same 256-byte minimum, plus the protocol support fee. Most of it goes to the authors of the conversation you join, as Post authors describes.

The same as the shortest reply. Each one is a reply without text, so it sends BFT to the authors like any reply, whether the reaction is positive or negative.

Choosing when replies close as you publish costs nothing extra. Closing replies to a post after you’ve published it costs a quarter of the post rate, all of it burned, with no protocol support fee.

A transfer adds a 1 percent burn and the protocol support fee on top of the amount you send, and the recipient receives the full amount. Sending 5 BFT costs you 5.075 BFT.

Only the protocol support fee, added on top. Nothing is burned, and the recipient receives the full amount.

The same as publishing the shortest post. The fee is held until the request ends, and what happens to it depends on the outcome, as Footnote requests describes.

Verifying the domain costs the same as publishing a 1 KiB post, and it isn’t refunded if verification fails. Reserving the Space then costs 30 times the post rate, plus a twelfth of the post rate for each day, paid 1 to 30 days ahead, with the protocol support fee added. Renewing costs only the daily amount. Everything but the protocol support fee is burned. Posting in any Space costs the ordinary post or reply charge.

No. Registering a node is free, and you don’t need BFT to join.

If a footnote answering the request is published, the fee goes to the contributor who wrote it. If that footnote is rejected, half the fee goes back to the requester and the other half is burned. If its review is inconclusive, or it closes unresolved, the whole fee goes back. If nobody takes the request within 48 hours, it expires and the fee goes back; a request someone has taken when the 48 hours end waits for them to finish.

A bond equal to the request fee, held until review ends. If your footnote is published, the bond comes back, and you receive the requester’s fee on top of the ordinary credit. If it’s rejected, half the bond comes back and the other half is burned. If review is inconclusive, or your footnote closes unresolved, the whole bond comes back. If you don’t submit a footnote within the 12 hours the request is yours, the bond is burned. If you answer your own request, you get your own fee back plus the ordinary credit.

Bigfoot Browser can hold an assigned cache job and be assigned to prepare public information packages, the same as a node. For cache work, the network credits a twelfth of the cost of publishing a 1 KiB post for each verified five-minute stretch, so at most the cost of one 1 KiB post each hour, and for preparing packages, the cost of publishing a 1 KiB post for each full MiB of public records packed. Both are credited at the same rate as a node doing the same work.

The network credits the node that hosts a new post or reply with 47.5 percent of its service charge, and each of the two nodes that relay it with 23.75 percent.

The network credits a node with an assigned cache job a twelfth of the cost of publishing a 1 KiB post for each verified five-minute stretch, so at most the cost of one 1 KiB post each hour. A node holds one cache job at a time. Nodes can also be assigned to prepare public information packages, which the network credits at the cost of publishing a 1 KiB post for each full MiB of public records packed.

Being online or offering storage or capacity is not credited by itself. Carrying footnotes and their reviews is not credited, and neither is serving ordinary reads and searches. How useful work sustains Bigfoot explains why the network credits completed work instead.

5 percent of each new post’s or reply’s service charge, split equally among the validators whose signatures finalized it. Other validation work, such as validating transfers and tips, is not credited, and neither is membership alone.

Eight times the cost of publishing a 1 KiB post, at the rate when its review closes. A footnote published with changes is credited six times that cost, and two times goes to the reviewer whose note is attached. A rejected, inconclusive, or unresolved footnote is credited nothing and costs nothing.

For every footnote that reaches a verdict, including a rejection, three reviewers are chosen at random from those who revealed on time, and the network credits each of them two-thirds of the cost of publishing a 1 KiB post. The reviewer whose note is attached to a footnote published with changes is also credited twice the cost of publishing a 1 KiB post. A footnote that closes unresolved is credited to nobody.

Every reply sends half of its charge, not counting the protocol support fee, to the author of the post that started the conversation, and a quarter to the author of the post or reply it answers. When those are the same author, they receive both. Reactions and poll votes work the same way. A share that would go back to the person replying is burned instead.

Not by itself. A post receives BFT when people reply to it, react to it, or tip it. A tip goes in full to the author of the post or reply it’s attached to.

People can tip a verified domain Space, which goes to its current owner, or subscribe to it with an amount they choose, paid every week. A subscription is support, not access: everything published on Bigfoot is public, and owners can’t set prices or minimums. It continues until the subscriber cancels, their balance runs short, or the Space changes hands or lapses. Unowned community Spaces can’t receive tips or subscriptions.

No. Governance membership is a volunteer role and is unpaid. A governance member who also takes on another role is credited for that role like anyone else.