From: Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander.se>
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:13:04 +0200
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Why Satoshi's temporary anti-spam measure isn't
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On Wednesday 29. July 2015 05.03.45 Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev wrote=
:
> Point is=E2=80=A6processing blocks requires computational resources t=
hat someone
> needs to put up. Unless the people who are putting up these resources=
 are
> properly incentivized to continue doing it, the network will fail.

This assumption is proven wrong by history.
Take a look at the RC5 challance, and its related cousins like the fold=
ing-at-
home or seti-at-home.

Next to that, there is incentive for running a node. It is that you don=
't have=20
to trust someone else. This incentive has in business always been a ver=
y=20
strong motivator. See how many companies run Outlook on their own intra=
net=20
instead of using Outlook.com or similarly in the cloud.=20

In my own opinion, its waaay to early to call failure on running nodes.=
 Maybe=20
you want to actually help merchants/chains/individuals run them by maki=
ng=20
bitcoin-core more useful for them.

What is the reason people don't run it? Well, reddit says its because o=
f the=20
upstream bandwidth not being able to be throttled. What about you try w=
orking=20
on that instead of giving up on it?
--=20
Thomas Zander