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From: Dave Scotese <dscotese@litmocracy.com>
To: Mike Hearn <hearn@vinumeris.com>
Cc: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing" Analysis
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:08:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGLBAhf-qtEZCrwTR3fbKxJW=sLF-AqGyOHSD0k+k+-Rvkz6Og@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+w+GKS91NWB9ffysD4qEvAm+r1PswMePq6dirshbcZzpFg6Cg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Mike Hearn <hearn@vinumeris.com> wrote:

> It's worth noting that even massive companies with $30M USD of funding
>> don't run a single Bitcoin Core node
>
>
> This has nothing to do with block sizes, and everything to do with Core
> not directly providing the services businesses actually want.
>
> The whole "node count is falling because of block sizes" is nothing more
> than conjecture presented as fact. The existence of multiple companies who
> could easily afford to do this but don't because they perceive it as
> valueless should be a wakeup call there.
>

Regardless of why node count is falling, many people who used to run a full
node stopped doing so.  To mitigate that, their chances of getting
something out of it have to be greater.  What if propagating a valid
transaction generated a small chance of earning a piece of the fee?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-24 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-24  2:57 [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Roadmap 2015, or "If We Do Nothing" Analysis Dave Scotese
2015-07-24  3:37 ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24 11:38   ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-24 14:09     ` Adam Back
2015-07-24 15:22       ` Simon Liu
2015-07-24 17:40       ` Peter Todd
2015-07-24 20:28         ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24 20:31           ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24 15:08     ` Dave Scotese [this message]
2015-07-24 13:39   ` Thomas Zander
2015-07-24 17:43     ` Peter Todd
2015-07-24 20:23       ` Eric Lombrozo
2015-07-24 21:12       ` Slurms MacKenzie
2015-07-24 15:40 ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-25  2:23 Dave Scotese
2015-07-25 11:19 ` Slurms MacKenzie

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