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Topic: Bitcoin nodes - reward (Read 907 times)

legendary
Activity: 966
Merit: 1000
January 08, 2015, 01:39:56 PM
#5
Why is there no rewards for bitcoin nodes? I tried to search and didnt find any post about it, if anyone gives me a post about this I'll erase this one, thanks.

Because Satoshi didn't think it was necessary and didn't code any method of doing so into the protocol. Still, if you really want to, you could set up a node that refuses to accept connections from any peer unless they pay some bitcoins for that privilege.  What will your expesive node offer that peers can't get by ignoring you and connecting to free nodes instead?

The question was not made because i want to get paid for running a node but to see if giving incentive to nodes would solve the decreasing bitcoin nodes trending at the moment...

He was providing you an answer in the form of a question.


If you need it in plain text, satoshi didn't code any method of doing so into the bitcoin protocol.
legendary
Activity: 1628
Merit: 1012
January 07, 2015, 12:29:17 AM
#4
Why is there no rewards for bitcoin nodes? I tried to search and didnt find any post about it, if anyone gives me a post about this I'll erase this one, thanks.

Because Satoshi didn't think it was necessary and didn't code any method of doing so into the protocol. Still, if you really want to, you could set up a node that refuses to accept connections from any peer unless they pay some bitcoins for that privilege.  What will your expesive node offer that peers can't get by ignoring you and connecting to free nodes instead?

The question was not made because i want to get paid for running a node but to see if giving incentive to nodes would solve the decreasing bitcoin nodes trending at the moment...

He was providing you an answer in the form of a question.

legendary
Activity: 1143
Merit: 1000
January 06, 2015, 10:44:28 PM
#3
Why is there no rewards for bitcoin nodes? I tried to search and didnt find any post about it, if anyone gives me a post about this I'll erase this one, thanks.

Because Satoshi didn't think it was necessary and didn't code any method of doing so into the protocol. Still, if you really want to, you could set up a node that refuses to accept connections from any peer unless they pay some bitcoins for that privilege.  What will your expesive node offer that peers can't get by ignoring you and connecting to free nodes instead?

The question was not made because i want to get paid for running a node but to see if giving incentive to nodes would solve the decreasing bitcoin nodes trending at the moment...
legendary
Activity: 3472
Merit: 4801
January 06, 2015, 08:11:40 PM
#2
Why is there no rewards for bitcoin nodes? I tried to search and didnt find any post about it, if anyone gives me a post about this I'll erase this one, thanks.

Because Satoshi didn't think it was necessary and didn't code any method of doing so into the protocol. Still, if you really want to, you could set up a node that refuses to accept connections from any peer unless they pay some bitcoins for that privilege.  What will your expesive node offer that peers can't get by ignoring you and connecting to free nodes instead?
legendary
Activity: 1143
Merit: 1000
January 06, 2015, 07:19:09 PM
#1
Why is there no rewards for bitcoin nodes? I tried to search and didnt find any post about it, if anyone gives me a post about this I'll erase this one, thanks.
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