As a top 20 witness on Hive: the goal is to provide just enough value to the network to not get kicked out of the top 20.

Here you identified something that could be the crux of what you are describing.

Is running just a Witness node enough in the future? We know how things are now with the votes and that is fine for the moment. However, will we get to the point of raising our expectations?

Perhaps, one of the requirements for getting major votes is going to be a full node being run by the top witnesses. As you said, Blocktrades holding the top spot is a no brainer. He and his team do a lot that most overlook.

As for the main theme presented here, the fact is money is ceasing to be a problem. You aptly pointed out we can incentivize anything. That is the power of what we have in Web 3.0.

It is just a matter of designing the reward/payment system.

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