You can make many accounts online in one node… Check out for example my public node: Swagger UI
You can make your account online there…
The goal is to reward one node not accounts, which should be clear from the rationale. The only question is whether that’s possible or not. In the worst case it could be semi-manual similar to gov rewards not embedded in the protocol.
At the moment you can track either online public node (by monitoring the swagger i sent you) or you can track list of accounts and its stakes…
Note that the public node requires proxy app to allow use of cpu sensitive “partition key creation”. This is not officially done by Algorand atm, and there is no official way to create partition keys from web on nodes run by algokit or official docker images. (To my knowledge… perhaps something has changed meanwhile)
There is no way at the moment to say which nodes are validating which accounts as far as i know.
Technically those nodes holds the private keys for signing the block proposal messages, so it should be possible, but i am not sure right now if they can sign arbitrary data so that you can registrer your node to some database to link node with account… Nodes does not have any identifier to my knowledge nor they use some account, so it might be good to change protocol if we want to these things properly.
Btw, in my opinion it would be great if we generate account for each node, and this node would identify in the network with his public key…
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