justus, all
it seems that awareness of the need to introduce economic incentives for services provided by full nodes are rising among devs community, see this thread on the btc dev mailing list:
http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/009879.html
let's see how core devs will react to this idea.
it seems that awareness of the need to introduce economic incentives for services provided by full nodes are rising among devs community, see this thread on the btc dev mailing list:
http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-August/009879.html
let's see how core devs will react to this idea.
How would this work if you issue (say) one txn per day on average? I mean, wouldn't it take a month or even a year before the SPV client summed up enough use to make it worth committing the txn? Are there risks to having a payment channel or LN connection open for these durations?
I agree that implementation of such payment system has to be carefully crafted. that said I'm not knowledgeable enough to evaluate which solution are better. (1)
I just want to say that even at current level of adoption there's enough SPV traffic to support a market based on supply and demand.
e.g. 1 txn per day per SVP client, supposedly half a million of active SPV clients would generate:
500000÷(3600×24) ~ 5.7tx/s
clearly we are not there since 5 tx/s per second is above the actual network capacity, but it is not so far fetched to estimate at least 500K SPV clients once we gain a wider users base.
(1) fwiw I'm following LN mailing list and it seems to me that keeping a channel open even for long period of time is not impossible.
or maybe it was butterfly wings...
