Quote from: Peter R on January 05, 2015, 07:29:44 PM

Quote from: smooth on January 05, 2015, 07:28:25 PM

Quote from: Peter R on January 05, 2015, 07:16:18 PM

He's saying that increasing the full-node bandwidth requirements is a centralizing factor. It is. If it requires more resources to run a full-node, less full-nodes will be run (all other variables held constant).

Fewer nodes is not itself the entire problem, it is also where the nodes are. If most of the nodes end up at a few big VPS companies that is not a good outcome, even if the node count increases.

Agreed. Good point.

A new transport layer which slices, dices, etc, could mitigate certain of the concerns here. Something like Oh, I dunno, 'SuperNET'? I'll expect this to be one of the main sales pitches.