Damus
daum3ns · 2d
so why should i run a node then? if i just want to store my wealth, how do i get a vote?
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You never did!
I run a node to interact with the network DIRECTLY.

Not through some “trusted third party”.

I’m continuously shocked how misunderstood this is.

Bitcoin has never been and WILL never be a “democracy”.

It is a system of auto-poetic incentives. Bound together by the unforgable cost of energy. ⚡️

That’s what the “work” in POW means! 👊😌
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Clippycoiner · 2d
A bunch of pseudo-religious, corecoiner nonsense. Bitcoin as a technology operates on the idea that everyone keeps a copy of a ledger of transactions, where everyone checks, based on AGREED UPON RULES, whether transactions were added fairly, ROUGHLY FOLLOWING energy and worked expended. If a networ...