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@ ManyKeys
2025-05-14 08:28:15
Economic nodes could have louder voices in governance debates because they have more at stake. However, this influence is rather social and economic, not technical or protocol-level. If they decided to change the inherent properties of the protocol, they would collapse the price on themselves and be at a greater loss than general plebs that are exposed lesser short-risk exposure.
Full nodes validate transactions and enforce Bitcoin’s rules, ensuring trustless consensus regardless of their throughput. High transaction throughput is irrelevant if a node isn’t independently verifying the chain. Decentralization and security depend on full nodes, not their speed or capacity.