Host questions, answered without the hype.

Short answers for people considering the RenderMac host waitlist. If a topic needs a full page, we link it.

Can I start earning today?

No. Public live host enrollment and payouts are gated. Join the host waitlist.

Is “hundreds per month” a guarantee?

No. It is aspirational positioning for meaningful idle utilization after the network opens. Read earnings expectations.

Is a MacBook Air M1 useful?

Yes for Remotion-class jobs we measured: HeavyMotion within ~25–30% of M2 Max wall-clock. See M1 Air host page.

Will rendering destroy my electricity bill?

Unlikely to be the dominant cost. M2 Max package energy for a 20-minute kinetic was about 5.4 Wh in our bakeoff. Thermals and time matter more. See power bakeoff.

Can I pause?

Pause is a core trust feature. Read thermal pause.

What jobs run?

Typed media services - stitch, encode, captions, Remotion-class work - not arbitrary untrusted shell access marketed as “compute.”

Still interested? Join the host waitlist

We will email when host access opens. No fake dashboard enrollment here.