Maybe there are still some advantages but I don't know why this is not considered as a major issue by the bitcoin community for the future and why this looks to be never discussed:
- the size of the bitcoin network in terms of full nodes is ridiculous and this is continuously decreasing, we cannot consider the bitcoin network as a decentralized p2p network, what you are proposing is logical but will of course amplify the problem >For reasons I am unable to determine a significant number of node operators do not upgrade their clients. Why should they? What is the incentive for people to run full nodes and upgrade? FYI I am part of the 2071 0.13.1 nodes for some good reasons but will just shut it down when I am done, same for zcash (which as a matter of fact I upgraded today since by some chance I noticed some updates I was not aware of neither notified, just running it because I need it from time to time and just don't kill it so I don't have to wait for the restart process, maybe others are doing the same or just forgot that they were running a full node) Because, again, why should I or we maintain it/them? I have looked at the proposals in the past (as well as the incentive program) to reward those that are running full nodes but only found a very few, never implemented (or even considered) This is the very same for proposals allowing to start a full node from zero in an acceptable timeframe (ie not 10 days in my case) If the consensus is not to solve those two points and have a bitcoin network controlled then it would be interesting to know why, so people don't waste time trying to find solutions Satoshi himself predicted that the full nodes will get centralized, I think it's wrong, or in that case the bitcoin network cannot pretend to be a decentralized immutable system (can be compared then to the Tor network which does not pretend to be decentralized, because it is centralized, and in addition does not encourage small nodes) PS: IMHO the email notificiation system makes it difficult to follow whom is answering to whom/what on this list compared to other lists -- Zcash wallets made simple: https://github.com/Ayms/zcash-wallets Bitcoin wallets made simple: https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-wallets Get the torrent dynamic blocklist: http://peersm.com/getblocklist Check the 10 M passwords list: http://peersm.com/findmyass Anti-spies and private torrents, dynamic blocklist: http://torrent-live.org Peersm : http://www.peersm.com torrent-live: https://github.com/Ayms/torrent-live node-Tor : https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor GitHub : https://www.github.com/Ayms _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
