Quote from: barrysty1e on September 11, 2016, 12:07:13 PM

Quote from: mrsky on September 11, 2016, 08:54:43 AM

I believe the best solution is: Educate people about the need for nodes. Give them a easy SD card image LINUX system for Raspberry PI with pre-installed and clean Bitcoin client.
Make them run a 24/7 raspberry PI node - very cheap to buy and run. Will be run on altruism and self-preservation (for people who have stake on the BTC network - own BTCs)

That's it!

Cheers,
Sky

that will leave them with a sort of 'blackbox' knowledge as to what is actually going on.
to be fair, after linux is installed, bitcoind can be up and running/syncing within 7-10 typed lines.

people these days seem to want their cryptocurrency with the least technical involvement; but have the most to say.

I just tried to have a full node running but i cannot leave my PC open all day. I think we need some dedicated hosts, 1 node per each host provider, and pay it with donations.

That should boost the node count a bit, could be a temporary solution.