Sorry for top posting and the brevity but I'm typing from my phone You shoud be interested in this post by Justus Ranvier then: https://bitcoinism.liberty.me/economic-fallacies-and-the-block-size-limit-part-2-price-discovery/ On Jun 15, 2015 8:57 PM, "Raystonn ." wrote: > I have been toying with an idea and figured I'd run it by everyone here > before investing further time in it. The goal here is to make it > sustainable, and perhaps profitable, to run full nodes on the Bitcoin > Network in the long term. > > - Nodes can participate in a market wherein they are paid by nodes, > wallets, > and other services to supply Bitcoin Network data. Payment should be based > on the cost imposed on the Node to do the work and send the data, but can > be > set in any way the node operator desires. It's a free market. > - Nodes that are mostly leeching data from the Bitcoin Network, such as > those that do not receive inbound connections to port 8333, will send > payments to the nodes they connect to, but will likely receive no payments > from other nodes, wallets, and other services. > - Nodes that are providing balanced full service to the Bitcoin Network > will > tend to have a balance of payments coming in and going out with regards to > other balanced full service nodes, leaving them revenue neutral there. But > they will receive payments from leech nodes, wallets, and other services. > > The net effect here is that the cost to run nodes will be shared by those > who are using the Bitcoin network but not contributing by running a full > node. A market will develop for fees to connect to the Bitcoin Network > which should help cover the cost of running the Network. It's still > possible to continue offering access to your node for free as there is > nothing forcing you to charge a fee. But this isn't very sustainable > long-run. Market efficiencies should eventually mean nodes take in only > what is required to keep the Network operational. > > Raystonn > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >