Casa introduces incentive features to encourage regular maintenance of bitcoin nodes

Bitcoin custody and solutions provide Casa has announced a new program that rewards users for keeping their Bitcoin ($BTC) nodes online. The new Node Heartbeats feature will "privately, quickly and securely check that your Casa Node is working properly." As a reward for maintaining a healthy connection, which keeps the Bitcoin network secure, Casa will send 0.0001 BTC (~$1.00) to users that check in at least five times per week.