Why does Kaspa incentivize nodes to maintain diverse network connections?

Kaspa's protocol creates a direct economic incentive for nodes to stay well-connected: better connectivity means better mining outcomes. When a node has limited reach across the network, its local anticone grows — meaning it sees blocks from other regions later than well-connected peers do. That delay makes its own mined blocks less likely to land in the blue set, which is the set of blocks that earn rewards under GHOSTDAG. Because the reward structure penalizes isolation, miners are financially motivated to cultivate diverse, distributed connections rather than clustering around a small group of peers. For a beginner, the takeaway is that Kaspa's design aligns good networking behavior with good earnings — healthy network participation isn't just polite, it pays.