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Can a single developer like me write and deploy a neo smart contract?

Yes, you can if you have **$30,953** at least.

Yes, that's right. It cost you 490 GAS to deploy a smart contract to NEO Blockchain with current pricing at $63.17 for each GAS.

On the top of this, if you want to use any of the system code like **RunTime. CheckWitness** you pay extra fee of 1 +  0.2 GAS. This http://docs.neo.org/en-us/sc/systemfees.html will give more info on Fees.

After finding this in **building my first NEO smart contract**, I ended up losing interest as I know that I never can deploy my smart contract to BlockChain.

So the bottom line is, this is only for **big organisations**

I can achieve the same for less than $50 with a normal centralised database environment. **Isn't the whole point of this block chain is to be more affordable and distributed? Are we even going in right direction?**

Let me know your thoughts.