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authorGregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com>2015-08-17 19:28:01 +0000
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+On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Hector Chu via bitcoin-dev
+<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
+> 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).
+
+One can mine without running a node, unfortunately, thats where the
+comments about pooled mining come from.
+
+Also, this distionction between full nodes that "Validate" and
+(presumably) SPV wallets that don't validate isn't consistent with the
+design of Bitcoin.
+
+> enter the mining game. A bit like making P2Pool the one and only pool
+> allowed on the network.
+
+Thats been suggested, though scalablity reasons make this hard: in the
+P2Pool design there is a substantial tradeoff in variance reduction vs
+communicatoin costs.
+