I wrote this in response to a post by Limo on Tangleblog.com when the question was asked if people would go Full Node or not since there was no monetary gain in doing so.
First let me say that at the moment there may be no monetary gain but who knows what gains, monetary or otherwise, will be offered up in the future given the superior technology, speed, no transaction fees and huge applications open to companies and individuals alike.
That said here is what I posted:
Bang on Limo!
If people believe in something they will use it and support it and even advertise it (ie go Full Node) if they think they can.
IOTA is by far and away a better, more usable and scalable technology than any blockchain style token out there. When people come to realize its potential they will embrace it and be eager to promote or help it succeed.
Money is a great incentive as we all know but if it is the ONLY incentive than eventually the 'thing' that is the motivator will eventually run out of steam.
We keep coming back to the internet as an example. At some point it became a 'money game' when those in the know realized that there was indeed money to be made in the early days, but...if it was only good for making money than that game would have ended long ago. Truth is, the internet is now faaar more than just about making money (although many do still make fistfuls today). For the vast majority of those using it, it has become an every day staple that they literally cannot live without. What?! the internet is shutting down!!? Nooooo!!!
The Bitcoin is about exchanging value's, "I'll give you one bitcoin for that 'thing' that I believe has the same value as my one bitcoin". All other tokens based or built on the same 'blockchain' technology are simply variations of that original idea and still and will always have the same challenges of scalability and expanded usefulness that the the blockchain foundation has built in.
The Tangle technology however, which the IOTA is built on is just so much more superior right from the ground up that businesses large and small will start to switch over as they see the real potential and come to trust its security. Remember, it took Bitcoin 10 years to get to this point of recognition and implementation. Now that the world is waking up to the blockchain technology it will only take a matter of 2 or 3 years from this point for the same businesses to wake up to the Tangle's superiority over the Blockchain and start using it.
To that end who knows what potential benefits there will be to running a 'full' node in the future. Certainly the incentives will be there, are here, and new ones will keep coming.
At moment of writing IOTA/USD was at .28 and coming back.
As we all know the cryptocurrency world is only just coming out of a large correction. Now it the time to get back in whatever your currency choice is....I think :)
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