On 15 August 2015 at 18:43, Satoshi Nakamoto via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I suspect we need a better incentive for users to run nodes instead of > relying solely on altruism. > Is he talking about "full nodes" i.e. validating-only, or nodes in the sense of the original whitepaper (i.e. miners)? Because there is already plenty of incentive for running a node (i.e. the coinbase). The issue is that the reward is more or less like a decentralised lottery with high entry cost. If the income could be smoothed like in a mining pool, without actually being a mining pool, then perhaps more people would pay to enter the mining game. A bit like making P2Pool the one and only pool allowed on the network.
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