In order to be able to verify transactions without trusting anyone else. If you're handling a bunch of customer money or selling services / products then you want to be very sure that everything is kosher.
The ability to operate without trusting anyone is well worth the cost for anyone operating a business. So, security and trustlessness are the incentive. Also TX fees are only for miners not everyone operating a full node. Back when the whitepaper came out it wasn't much extra work for your full node to be mining. You need a warehouse now so the term full node has a slightly different meaning nowadays. On Jul 11, 2017 1:56 PM, "Yubin Ruan via bitcoin-discuss" < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As in the subject, I am wondering what are the incentives for people > to run full nodes which cost them lots of disk space and network > bandwidth. > > In section 6 of the original bitcoin paper[1], the author stated some > incentives which allow the whole network to work > automatically/spontaneously. For example, the transaction fee adds > incentive for nodes to support the network. Are there any similar > incentives for running full nodes? > > [1]: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf > > Regards, > Yubin > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-discuss >
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