A simple and principled way to compute rent fees

[jpitts]

Ah, I was operating under the assumption that the rent was being paid to validators, rather than being burned. +1

Perhaps the rent could go to those running full nodes.

Incentives for running full Ethereum nodes

After typing that rant up, I thought more about the problem and I have since become even more concerned that there is an incentive misalignment here, which leads to an unstable equilibrium long term. Rather than focusing on the specific concerns about operational overhead of running a client, I would prefer to focus on the concern of lack of incentives to building a client. I’m curious what people’s thoughts are on user-agent incentivization? I recognize that it isn’t game theoretically fool …