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I want to know something. Why do people run nodes ? I know we need them so maybe out of good heartedness but can't you profit from nodes and make some bitcoins ? Or have I got it all wrong ? If so how ?

There's an article here: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-nodes-need/ In short, it's just to provide decentralized consensus as to support the community. You can't make any bitcoins running a node. In the early days, the bitcoin client could also mine, but the functionality was removed in version 0.13.0. Mining is widely considered to be only applicable to asic hardware now for bitcoin.

I want to know something. Why do people run nodes ? I know we need them so maybe out of good heartedness but can't you profit from nodes and make some bitcoins ? Or have I got it all wrong ? If so how ?

I run a node as a hobby and to secure the network. I'm interested in the technology and want to see it develop further, and this aspect interests me the most currently.I'm turning over ideas in my head about how to incentivize nodes.Are you asking if the mining hardware can also run nodes? I'm not familiar with mining hardware or setups or if they integrate this.

Does node count determine activation? No. Users that decide to enforce the new rules will only follow blocks that conform to the existing rules which will in turn cause miners to activate SegWit. A UASF could be enforced by any number of economic nodes, although hash power may only choose to follow such rules if there was significant economic weight behind it.

I want to know something. Why do people run nodes ? I know we need them so maybe out of good heartedness but can't you profit from nodes and make some bitcoins ? Or have I got it all wrong ? If so how ?