Author: Justus Ranvier 2014-06-16 19:00:17
Published on: 2014-06-16T19:00:17+00:00
The email thread discusses incentivizing full nodes in the Bitcoin network. Mike Hearn proposes a reward system based on transaction fees or coin age, and Matt Whitlock raises concerns about perverse incentives and the likelihood of a network split between capitalist and socialist nodes. Justus Ranvier suggests that there are already multiple independent transport networks for Bitcoin, including ipv4, ipv6, Tor, and native_i2p, and as long as multihomed hosts act as bridges, information will propagate across all of them. The email thread ends with a PGP digital signature attachment.
Updated on: 2023-06-09T00:08:42.759724+00:00