The point is that without concrete direct incentives, many might find it
rational to just leech off others...which might actually work for a
while...but this is obviously not stable equilibrium...and it's very hard
to do any game theory on it.
Current SPV implementations necessarily diverge from
The current block size debate has brought up an important, albeit often
neglected observation. Full nodes suffer from a tragedy of the commons problem
and therefore are likely to continue decreasing as a percentage of total
Bitcoin nodes. This also results in a vicious circle as more and more
I proposed something along these lines in the lightning-dev mailing list:
http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2015-July/88.html
It's probably a little off-topic there...but I'm very interested in
discussing such ideas.
On Aug 3, 2015 10:06 AM, Luv Khemani via bitcoin-dev
