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What are the benefits of persisting identity? #195

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JustinDrake opened this issue Nov 22, 2016 · 1 comment

JustinDrake commented Nov 22, 2016

The IPFS whitepaper states

Users are free to instatiate a “new” node identity on every launch, though that loses accrued network benefits. Nodes are incentivized to remain the same.

What are the incentives for nodes to keep their identity?

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flyingzumwalt commented May 23, 2017

This issue was moved to https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/what-are-the-benefits-of-persisting-identity/303

flyingzumwalt closed this as completed

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