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So in effect, if there are more witnesses, there are more paid servers/nodes, with higher bandwidth capabilities, and therefore a more stable network. Developers have no incentive to keep their nodes online when they are simply testing. They can download the Blockchain at a point in time and run with that as their test environment. Until they roll out a production version of code, they have little to no incentive for running a full node and paying the associated expenses.
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More witnesses != higher bandwidth. > They can download the Blockchain at a point in time and run with that as their test environment. Right now, for a developer to run a full node - they would need to pay for a system with 256 GB of RAM, and the blockchain is already getting close to requiring them to have _more_ than that. Exchanges are also a big concern. They pay for the cost to run their own nodes (for security reasons) and having more expensive nodes to run makes it less likely they will adopt STEEM.
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