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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Merits 4 from 2 users
Re: Total Number of full nodes operating. Less than 10k.
by
gmaxwell
on 05/09/2018, 07:35:04 UTC
⭐ Merited by Foxpup (3) ,Wind_FURY (1)
Why can we not have services where people make donations to a global company with enough resources to host these full nodes for them. , like we have with Cloud mining.
This completely misses the point.  If one doesn't care about decentralization the whole of the bitcoin system can run on a _single_ node there isn't need for multiple nodes (much less many) but for decentralization purposes.

Paying someone to run nodes (or running one yourself on a third party controlled VPS service like amazon or digital ocean, for that matter) wouldn't serve much of a purpose.