Using market forces to incentivise this is a great idea. Running a node incurs a quantifiable cost in terms of bandwidth, causes authorities to watch you more closely, and exposes you to a risk of litigation over the content you are relaying. Ideals regarding privacy, the freedom of information, and anonymity aren't enough for most people to surmount the risk and cost of operating one.
As it stands I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of nodes were operated by various national intelligence agencies simply because they have vastly more incentive to do so than anyone else.
Potentially being able to profit from this changes things dramatically and gives people who wouldn't consider themselves stakeholders actual reason to 'sell' their bandwidth to the tor network.
As it stands I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of nodes were operated by various national intelligence agencies simply because they have vastly more incentive to do so than anyone else.
Potentially being able to profit from this changes things dramatically and gives people who wouldn't consider themselves stakeholders actual reason to 'sell' their bandwidth to the tor network.