I don’t know how 1, 2 and 3 relate to network costs.
Pocket nodes are not a significant cost to the network - blockchain nodes are. Reducing the number of Pocket nodes will have no impact on sell pressure. Increasing the base stake will mostly create a redistribution of stake to consolidated nodes and pools.
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Pocket nodes resist A LOT of traffic, it would be interesting to see which is the limiting factor, the blockchain node or the Pocket node. But besides that it will not be relevant to network costs (the subject of this pre-proposal).
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MaximumChainsparameter is not being discussed here, but increasing it is the opposite of what we need since we need independent node runners - not more consolidated nodes (we address this here, in the fairness thread). -
I agree with number 3, but for v1, let’s avoid unnecessary changes in v0 when we know that they won’t have an effect on network cost. When stake weighting was proposed, the Pocket nodes’ cost was an issue. But with leanpokt that’s no longer the case.
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Sending only “paid” traffic will reduce burning drastically, the imbalance of minting > burning (signaled in this thread) will remain unaffected (EDIT: in fact, burning will be reduced and minting will remain the same due to SER, so it will result in: minting >> burning).
Also, there is a misconception that the only paid relays are those that are paid to PNI in FIAT. This is not true. The protocol charges for every relay. The free relays are being paid for by PNI, from their treasury. New gateways can offer free relays also if they want, but they will have to pay the protocol for them.