If there is no incentives then why there is nodes on the network?
Here are your incentives:
Individuals - Fans that want to contribute to the network
- Heavily financially invested individual that wants to contribute at securing the network
- Others?
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There is no financial incentive to run a node. That was what I wanted to say. If what you say is correct, there is only
a handful of people really involved with Bitcoin. Considering the
huge amount of "incentives" to run a node, there should be many more than we have today, correct? I'm pretty sure that most of the supporters do not understand the importance of decentralized nodes.
I understand the importance of decentralized nodes very well. No need to remind it to me.
My point is that there is enough incentives to run a node to keep bitcoin secure and decentralized.