I was going to ask the same question today: Why full nodes don't get a reward for their support?
Because nobody pays them.
Ok then on that logic why not just redesign the bitcoin network and stop paying miners.
And let;s just rely on the altruism of miners to setup million dollar farms to do the hashing.
If miners would not get paid then a lot of them would leave ,and it would be more decentralized so that everyone could mine with CPU, VOLUNTARILY FOR NO PAYMENT.
How about that?
-Either both miners and node dont get paid = voluntary work in the name of altruism
-Or both get paid = for profit businessYou cant mix them, as it is contradictory.
I agree with this statement.
It is possible to create a non-exploitable incentive node system, but it needs more thinking
through of everything than some here seem to want to give attention to.
It is one thing to say it can't currently be done, it's another to tell people not to bother.
I think it will be the new holy grail race in Bitcoin. Blocksize and other such debates are
about financial and user pumping, but incentivized nodes are about the ensured decentralized
future, security, and non-regulatability of the Bitcoin network.
Without that, what is really the point in using bitcoin?