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My veiw on the % is that full nodes provide just as much value/security to the network as mining does, so why not split it 50/50.
Why shouldn't someone that spent 0.2
BTC to run a single executable get 1/2 of the income earned by someone that spent 12
BTC on hardware? You're
really asking that question with a straight face?
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I fucking hate doing this, but...
There are a number of tactics which are used in discussions which are designed to short circuit discussion.
The clipping of a thread and then the insertion of an ad hominem attack -- is a tactic as old as Rome -- hence the latin in the name and it was old then. The modern colloquial would be a dirty punch or a cheap shot. The latin means an attack on a person.
Ad hominem attacks are generally used by people who disagree with someone but who lack the skill, knowledge or self control to articulate their disagreement as an intellectual argument -- so the use of the attack is a show a weakness. This is just analytically what it is -- it's a show that reason has left the building.
Now if we really want to go all the way down the rabbit hole, we can discuss what is often called micro-aggressions... but I'm not going to go there...
I'm just going to say that ad hominem attacks are a sign of a lack of skill and consideration -- and not welcome here.
Differences of opinion are.
So what I would suggest is that one needs to understand the math underlying paxos and those distributed consensus systems before making any statements -- and that the amazing fact is that once you understand that you can see that the nodes are actually an economically superior way of securing the network to mining. So yes, they actually get the same result for less money. But it would take some work to figure that out and understand it.
And it is much harder to do that work than just to attack people who confront your beliefs.
We don't have to get along -- but let's not make stupid attacks.
As stated before -- I actually love smart creative trolls -- they challenge us to improve.
Ad hominem attacks were old 2,000 years ago -- can't we move on and not bring them into this new world crypto projects are trying to create?