To Beat Online Censorship, We Need Anonymous Payments
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The balance: running a node needs to be worthwhile for individuals and small businesses but not so profitable a large operation has incentive to swoop in and effectively restart the problem.
That is an issue that is difficult to solve because it is hard to turn people away from high value. The fact that 1 node isn't equal to 1 person means that capital and other means can always be leveraged to take over a node-based system. Even if it was 1 node per person, technology isn't equal if it's using something like proof-of-work.