@JimCollinson @Bux Early into emissions is the best time to fix a lop-sidedness caused by emissions.
Background
- uploads working means nodes will have plenty of records and nodes will have requirement to store those.
- emissions help to support nodes storing the data
- without uploads people can run 10 times the nodes in datacentres with cheap VPS using very small storage packages. Thus over abundance of nodes that underperform.
- once storage is needed to store records then they cannot run those 10 times the nodes that would normally be supported by those setups. Storage is EXPENSIVE in datacentres
- The network is designed to have records being stored and until that happens with working uploads the network is unbalanced and causing issues due to that.
- we are in a very abnormal situation and pumping emissions into that keeping it abnormal. The changes to require up to date nodes was very much a step in the right direction
My suggestion is that while it is early on without the weight of many months/years pushing back we make a change for the short term.
The suggestion is that emissions are reduced a lot while uploads are not working and we cannot get a balanced network with nodes actually storing data.
The nodes are like 2D objects being stacked on top of each other like paper in a reams of paper making a pile of useless sheets. Its just a theoretical network at the moment
Proper balanced network is more like 3D objects actually taking up space and can construct a real network. And emissions should reflect this.
Lets stop reinforcing the lop sided network and encourage a healthy network. Reduce emissions until uploads are working properly.
I realise that the big node operators will not like this proposal at all since it’d mean they cannot rake in as much and support their exponential growth of nodes to rake in more, but this network is worth more than that, worth more than promotional figures, and until the balance with records being uploaded and stored we are just a mining exercise with emissions as the rewards. Lets lower emissions a lot until the network is balanced with records being stored to warrant the normal levels of emissions I am not saying get rid of them, but reduce them by a lot to stop supporting those running underperforming nodes on crippled servers due to number of nodes, and then bring them back to normal once people can upload records to justify the normal emissions rate.
And @JimCollinson @Bux I truly disagree with the comment that it is too early to change things like emissions. This isn’t changing the concept or long term emissions but a pause, if you will, giving reduced emissions till uploads are working. It is the perfect time to do this before the weight of time makes it difficult and less right