Quote from: Jet Cash on January 04, 2016, 08:35:59 AM

There is another solution. Reward people (other than miners) with micro-payments in return for running full nodes.

Ok, but how to do that?
How do you know 100 "different" nodes aren't all the same person running a single datacenter with some proxy addresses?

And even getting past that you would still have all nodes being big data centers with state of the art fiber optic connections - not very resilient and very easy to take down.

Chinese miners have directly said that due to the "Great Firewall of China" they cannot handle more than 8mb blocks. We need to be able to go to 330 mb blocks to reach near-VISA levels.

Bitcoin as it is now works, I think, because normal Bobs and Joes can and do run the nodes - more or less.
Take that away and it would be a lot more tempting to block addresses that governments don't like if you risk losing your fancy data center otherwise.