For what purpose?🤔
Discussion
Out noding others.
To attack the network? Like take it down or take control?
Yes, to control a majority.
For whatever purpose. It could be to defend it. The mechanism is the same though. Could go either way. Just something that crossed my mind.
It was inspired by the popular implication that we should run a node to have a vote. But what if I run two? Or 10M? What does that do the votes of people running one?
if you can pay the ~$300/node and the ~$15-30/month power and internet bill for it, it's your money, i mean, what can i say.
i stopped running a node recently, mainly because i had better value from using the 4tb SSD i was using for this purpose.
also, it's not really a vote, it's just having an influence on what transactions get relayed. in actual fact, i could envision a much lighter weight server that just runs a mempool and applies policy. that would be a vote too. only needs one IP address also, you can run many on one with different ports.