thank you. You are right. It is always difficult when payments are involved. Spam and scams always ruining everything. I guess it is in human nature. No idea. I was just thinking what could be done to make more people run their nodes. :) 

quark

You'd need undeniable proof that a node is a node and not merely pretending to be one. Just like we need undeniable proof that a miner mined a block. For miners we use computational work. It's non-trivial to come up with something equivalent for node running.

 in a digital context is very hard. It's why our emails are filled with spam, captchas get ever harder, and why SN has a cost to post.

Most people would agree full nodes are providing value to the network and should be compensated if possible.

bitcoin

Should miners pay something to full nodes?

You'd need undeniable proof that a node is a node and not merely pretending to be one. Just like we need undeniable proof that a miner mined a block. For miners we use computational work. It's non-trivial to come up with something equivalent for node running.

In general, proving something ***is*** in a digital context is very hard. It's why our emails are filled with spam, captchas get ever harder, and why SN has a cost to post.

Most people would agree full nodes are providing value to the network and should be compensated if possible.