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First month node OP reward (**PRE**) was pretty much garbage 💩💩💩 I ran a pre node for a month and received only **17 PRE** for the 1st month which was about **$1**. I had to pay server fee for $10 so I was PREtty disappointed.

You can read my 1st month reward [here](https://www.publish0x.com/tomoyan/presearch-my-first-month-node-operator-rewards-prety-excited-xjmwyoj?a=4zbqpvkapr).
[![image.png](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQKR6jCxWHFgVUMazcLaozNwv8FRfpL6zicvajB4i4RK6/image.png)](https://www.publish0x.com/tomoyan/presearch-my-first-month-node-operator-rewards-prety-excited-xjmwyoj?a=4zbqpvkapr)

## But then things have improved the 2nd month!
![p.png](https://images.ecency.com/DQme2QY1GR5frCGqyk1q2gQPbJLegn95qBuoR5gGauUvTzk/p.png)

This is my 2nd month on node reward ☝️

Dev team had a bunch of releases and they fixed a lot of things and node operator reward improved a little bit so this 2nd month, I earned **61 PRE** for running a node and it was about **$5**
It wasn't a lot of increase, and I still can't pay for my server cost so I am still in red.
![giphy.gif](https://images.ecency.com/DQmVcPLF82dSK2gCAgeFd2oZJestkiJSCnFq3VmFKEKBDLQ/giphy.gif)

[source](https://gph.is/2ARU1XP)

But maybe it will get better next month?

## Claiming PRE
![image.png](https://images.ecency.com/DQmXvC1NGspBeGSTm3ZGpJNM5R8Emw4E4AbF1PjrbTBiXxz/image.png)

It is easy just "**Claim Now**" and there is no claim fee or transaction fee or anything. It will be added to the "Available to Stake" [Your "**Savings Account**"](https://presearch.org/account/withdrawals)
![image.png](https://images.ecency.com/DQmdUJwDd45aKm8rkcVbsRhVFo54cLcGVe4Ng6kGoe3uWrp/image.png)

I am going to **HODL** on to it but if you want to you can withdraw from there. (but it seems like a huge delay on this process though)
![image.png](https://images.ecency.com/DQmQomkGfz5CHaNsqGYTYr5E1xejw3YHxGYhki8pJzuWAju/image.png)

They have been talking about improving on withdraw process which is moving to a different blockchain or something so be sure to check out the weekly updates 👇
https://youtu.be/HcIYa_eNmOA

## Love the updated dashboard and stats
Here is my node stats.
![image.png](https://images.ecency.com/DQmPXgdyyG6gvwwnkLbAKXh6JXCzW91kov72wrTJAZPE51n/image.png)

And they even added the details page
![image.png](https://images.ecency.com/DQmWmuK9xpRwwHgwVBXGr6cZCyRqiYi89M1C6VJF5PkqFuM/image.png)

If you are interested in running a node, **Reliability Score** and **Latency Score** are the most important key elements to receive more search requests (seems like) which lead to more rewards. 
I am running my node on a cloud server so I am not sure how to improve these scores but if you know something, please let me know.

If you don't have a lot of **PRE** staked on your node, reward will be **PREtty** low, but if you are running on your own machine, you would do OK I think, but right now, I wouldn't recommend running it on cloud unless you don't mind losing money...🤣

## BUT nodes are still running on the testnet
so when they migrate the nodes to mainnet, result could be improved a lot? I heard they are going to run a bot on testnet or feed some mainnet traffic to the testnet or something so we will see how that is going to work out next month.
PREtty excited about that!

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