Low node costs are a good goal for nodes that handle transactions the node operator can afford.  Nobody is going to run a node for a network they do not use for their own transactions.  If transactions have fees that prohibit use for most economic activity, that means node count will drop until nodes are generally run by those who settle large amounts.  That is very centralizing.

Raystonn

On 29 Mar 2017 12:14 p.m., Jared Lee Richardson via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

In order for any blocksize increase to be agreed upon, more consensus is needed.  The proportion of users believing no blocksize increases are needed is larger than the hardfork target core wants(95% consensus).  The proportion of users believing in microtransactions for all is also larger than 5%, and both of those groups may be larger than 10% respectively.  I don't think either the Big-blocks faction nor the low-node-costs faction have even a simple majority of support.  Getting consensus is going to be a big mess, but it is critical that it is done.