+1 for MSI. I've bought GPUs from them for 10+ years and never once had a failure or even a minor issue. Got a lot of mileage out of the GTX 1080 I bought in 2016.
Of course it matters. A new network will have to start from scratch and with the "nobody is there, so I won't join"-mentality, potential growth is severely limited. By implementing federation, you will instantly have a base community to build on.
You can find incidents like this regularly all over Eastern Europe and the Balkans lol. The Ukrainian Parliament used to be very entertaining before 2022.
+1 for MSI. I've bought GPUs from them for 10+ years and never once had a failure or even a minor issue. Got a lot of mileage out of the GTX 1080 I bought in 2016.