Good day everyone!
I have a question.
Will it be possible to develop the network in regions where the number of nodes is small? Will it be beneficial? Is there some kind of motivation linkage to the regions?
For example: I open 500 nodes in a region with only 100 connections at the moment, will mining be successful?
I was wondering the same… is there any real benefit to have a node outside a populated area? It seems right now batting for connections in the most dense regions is better than the nodes I have locally where there’s almost no saturation but no traffic either…
I am running 40 nodes for about 2 weeks and all my rewards are coming from nodes in regions with the most nodes. In fact, those nodes send around 1 million relays per hour, the others in regions with fewer nodes send less than half of that.
+Relays/h -> more luck 
Currently, when a node relay traffic, they choose the next hop based on latency and speed. Therefore, for the time being, nodes clustering together with high speed Internet seem to do well.
On the other hand, our value added services like nConnect and TUNA, provide one-hope service to client applications and earn additional revenue via NanoPay. nConnect started in China and Asia, so nodes there (e.g. China, Japan, Korea, etc) will get more NanoPay income. But once nConnect becomes more global, nodes closer to NAS (Synology, QNAP, Asustro) users will get more NanoPay income.