I was just wondering how many have setup nodes yourself and how long you have been running them. Nodes make the Bitcoin environment more secure for anyone who doesn't know.
According to the site https://getaddr.bitnodes.io/, there are only 7480 full nodes (which is a very low number IMO) with most of them concentrated in the US and Europe.
For something with over 8 billion dollars in market cap. , its definetly low number of nodes.
I never leave client opened, just sync it and go away, since there is no reward of any kind for nodes , atleast that i know of.
If something should change about reward distribution, i believe there would be much more nodes.
I also think that there should be some sort of incentive for running bitcoin nodes, i think i read it somewhere that this was being proposed to the bitcoin dev team, but i cant remember where.
