> why should I run a node? You personally, perhaps none. But, there are plenty of businesses today (Exchanges, Payment gateways, Casinos) that run nodes becaus

> why should I run a node? You personally, perhaps none. But, there are plenty of businesses today (Exchanges, Payment gateways, Casinos) that run nodes because they make a lot more from the profits Nano brings their business than the relatively minor cost of running a node. None of these businesses would trust a 3rd party to tell them the network state. As cryptocurrency adoption rises and more business start adding it as a payment option (eg. online shops) it's not hard to imagine the larger ones, eg. Amazon, would run a node rather than pay 1% fee to a payment gateway service. It's also important to note that Bitcoin also does not provide financial incentives for running full nodes (miners != nodes) and in both Nano and Bitcoin's case, there are plenty of nodes on the network.