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15 days agoDepends on the instance and activity levels. I run a very small one on my own, and it costs ~$10 each month for server rental and b2 storage.
If I was running it on a broader scale, it would start to add up, but I mostly wanted to help with federation and reliability, and that’s fairly inexpensive.
The United States Federal Reserve banks currently holds over $4.5 trillion dollars of US Government debt, as of Q1 2025. That’s $4.5 trillion the government owes to the Fed, through Treasuries and other instruments. That number spiked during Covid and has been slowly unwinding as they reduce back to normal levels.
I wasn’t able to find any articles showing how much money the Fed may owe the government with a quick search, but I would definitely be interested in seeing your source. Generally speaking, the Fed has no particular need for money given that they can literally just edit the amount of money in their bank accounts if they want to, and any borrowing they do would be for other reasons.