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One big problem of the incentive system of Bitcoin is that it doesn't reward "Full-node operation" only "Mining operation", the result would be a more distribut
by elmar 9y ago
One big problem of the incentive system of Bitcoin is that it doesn't reward "Full-node operation" only "Mining operation", the result would be a more distributed and democratic system.
- anonymous5133 9y agoThe reason is because it isn't expensive to run a full node while running the mining operation is expensive.
- elmar 9y ago"No one anticipated pool mining, so we considered all miners to be full nodes and almost all full nodes to be miners. https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshis-best-kept-secret-why-is-there-a-1-mb-limit-to-bitcoin-block-size https://cointelegraph.com/news/satoshis-best-kept-secret-why...