Quote from: hardtime on March 15, 2017, 10:48:37 PM

Don't think people are just going to run nodes out of the kindness of their hearts and to use a disgusting amount of resources on their part. It's tough to say, but people are going to need to be incentivesd in some sort of fashion to be able to do something like this.

People say that "why don't you just run a node" "it'll make everything better, blah blah blah"

People don't understand that without some sort of payment to be using my computers resources, power and so on, I highly doubt that I'd be wanting to join in. It's not like I don't belive in Bitcoin, I do.

I just don't see a reason and a reason (personal gain here) has to be made for it.

I'm not running a node out of altruism alone. I do it because I'm heavily invested in bitcoin, and want it to succeed. There are a lot of other people here as well that are heavily invested in bitcoin. We have the same interest, and should join forces. Running nodes is how we can help protect the network and voice our opinions on how to move forward. Choosing which blocks and transactions to accept and relay by running a node is some of the only hard power that users have over the network.