Closed lodembeep closed 1 year ago
to be more specific :
The objective behind this request is to get a real brainstorming, or at least gather data about a possible way to reward people for running a node, TBH i am 100% bitcoin believer but considering how much it costs to run a full node, i tend to rely on third parties and must trust them since i don't have the means to run a full node.
The main issue is that full nodes should be afordable in a way or another.
What are your costs in this analysis? I can run a full node with -txindex for less than $100 in equipment and only around 200 MB/day of internet bandwidth. In pruned mode it can even get cheaper.
It would be great to refactor the Bitcoin relay fee in a way that would benefit full nodes operators
The benefit is secure, private, direct, nearly un-censorable access to an unstoppable financial system.
Do you even know what 100$ is worth in non US countries ? Bitcoin was made to bank the unbanked (among other things), 100$ in the US is not 100$ in other countries.
In the place i live, we must pay 45$ for a 10mb bandwidth and it is 1/2 of the max.
This discussion is off-topic here. Any potential solution to address this would need very invasive changes to the protocol, and belong on the bitcoin-dev mailing list as they affect the entire ecosystem. Not on the issue tracker for one implementation.
For sure this would be a huge change to the protocol, but it would also be a relief for many who cannot afford a full node, as i said, a solution should be found in a way o another.
Usually the issue tracker is used to track technical issues related to the Bitcoin Core code base. Network-wide consensus and/or P2P changes first need to be discussed with the greater community, e.g. the bitcoin-dev
mailing list. Also, they need a BIP to be implemented in Bitcoin Core and other software that connects to the bitcoin P2P network.
Please describe the feature you'd like to see added.
It would be great to refactor the Bitcoin relay fee in a way that would benefit full nodes operators
Is your feature related to a problem, if so please describe it.
Since BTC is getting bigger and bigger, the incentive to run a full bitcoin node is just ridiculous. Data storage cost a lot, and laptop manufacturers doesn't give a damn about it.
Describe the solution you'd like
It would be nice to reward full nodes with a few satoshis, 5k sat would be a good start.
Describe any alternatives you've considered
A good alternative would be to take parts of the miner's fees and spread them across the nodes who relayed transactions.
Please leave any additional context
I think there is a way to make it fair for everyone, and i know this was discussed for a while, but it would be good to have an update about this anyways.
Maybe there is something to be done through lightning ???
I would love to run a full BTC node with txindex and all, but god damn it it is too expencive !