{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwet","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwet","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-08-17\n📝 Original message:On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Hector Chu via bitcoin-dev\n\u003cbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e On 15 August 2015 at 18:43, Satoshi Nakamoto via bitcoin-dev\n\u003e \u003cbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e\u003e\n\u003e\u003e I suspect we need a better incentive for users to run nodes instead of\n\u003e\u003e relying solely on altruism.\n\u003e\n\u003e\n\u003e Is he talking about \"full nodes\" i.e. validating-only, or nodes in the sense\n\u003e of the original whitepaper (i.e. miners)? Because there is already plenty of\n\u003e incentive for running a node (i.e. the coinbase).\n\nOne can mine without running a node, unfortunately, thats where the\ncomments about pooled mining come from.\n\nAlso, this distionction between full nodes that \"Validate\" and\n(presumably) SPV wallets that don't validate isn't consistent with the\ndesign of Bitcoin.\n\n\u003e enter the mining game. A bit like making P2Pool the one and only pool\n\u003e allowed on the network.\n\nThats been suggested, though scalablity reasons make this hard: in the\nP2Pool design there is a substantial tradeoff in variance reduction vs\ncommunicatoin costs."}