{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kw","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1s4lj77xuzcu7wy04afcr487f0r3za0f8n2775xrpkld2sv639mjqsd44kw","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-08-07\n📝 Original message:On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Pieter Wuille via bitcoin-dev \u003c\nbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\n\u003e If the incentives for running a node don't weight up against the\n\u003e cost/difficulty using a full node yourself for a majority of people in the\n\u003e ecosystem, I would argue that there is a problem. As Bitcoin's fundamental\n\u003e improvement over other systems is the lack of need for trust, I believe\n\u003e that with increased adoption should also come an increased (in absolute\n\u003e terms) incentive for people to use a full node. I'm seeing the opposite\n\u003e trend, and that is worrying IMHO.\n\n\nAre you saying that unless the majority of people in the ecosystem decide\nto trust nothing but the genesis block hash (decide to run a full node)\nthere is a problem?\n\nIf so, then we do have a fundamental difference of opinion, but I've\nmisunderstood how you think about trust/centralization/convenience\ntradeoffs in the past.\n\nI believe people in the Bitcoin ecosystem will choose different tradeoffs,\nand I believe that is OK-- people should be free to make those tradeoffs.\n\nAnd given that the majority of people in the ecosystem were deciding that\nusing a centralized service or an SPV-level-security wallet was better even\ntwo or three years ago when blocks were tiny (I'd have to go back and dig\nup number-of-full-nodes and number-of-active-wallets at the big web-wallet\nproviders, but I bet there were an order of magnitude more people using\ncentralized services than running full nodes even back then), I firmly\nbelieve that block size has very little to do with the decision to run a\nfull node or not.\n\n\n-- \n--\nGavin Andresen\n-------------- next part --------------\nAn HTML attachment was scrubbed...\nURL: \u003chttp://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20150807/1aaa747d/attachment.html\u003e"}