So, I’m actually wondering how we can be so sure that there .. will be long periods of time, when new uploads can’t cover maintanance costs for existing data.
But that aside, we are already working with withholding the payment to nodes until they are relocated. If we can do that, we can also withhold it for other purposes…
Such as the pool you’re talking of.
When there’s good profitability, a part could be siphoned off to the pool. When there is low profitability, it could be balanced by the pool by releasing some of it to the owners.
This can’t exactly get new nodes to join, since the held DBCs are already owned by existing nodes.
But… the same effect could be achieved by letting the distribution algo of the reward shift correspondingly, to shift it towards younger nodes instead of older nodes.
Older nodes get their held back DBCs, younger nodes get more of the remaining payment flows.
Something like that. The problem is, like it has always been with all variants so far, to determine the “profitability”…
So, I’m just saying, I think it could still be achieved.
But, as I also said I’m not sure there is a need for it.