Nash prefers no stake weighting. Rather that spending capital on stake, would rather incent persons to put infrastructure on the network.
Concern around the army of ants attack - lots of validators. Counter measure is fees to join a namespace.
Big stake - no work.
Greg wants to encourage lots of distinct validators, however there is no way to distinguish between the army of ants and a long tail.
We want infrastructure providers to invest in high end hardware to service the blockchain. We also want these
Bystanders
Greg
Concept of read only nodes, who pay validators a price for some number of blocks. Not offering this is an invitation for someone to fork the code base.
These nodes to obtain blocks via the gossip network.