I really don’t understand how this “nodes control Bitcoin” narrative was manufactured
The UASF movement from 2017 didn’t activate SegWit: it forced the miners to finally agree to activate it.
Taproot was activated by miners vs speedy trial.
There has never been a single moment in Bitcoin’s history when the nodes got together and decided to fire the miners or at least invalidate their proof of work
Honest miners in a large majority were always required… and this is the best design. Because spinning up nodes is cheap, but Proof of Work mining comes with hardware, electricity & maintenance costs.
1 honest miner is more valuable to the network than 1000 idle nodes that sync with assumevalid enabled anyway.
The UASF movement from 2017 didn’t activate SegWit: it forced the miners to finally agree to activate it.
Taproot was activated by miners vs speedy trial.
There has never been a single moment in Bitcoin’s history when the nodes got together and decided to fire the miners or at least invalidate their proof of work
Honest miners in a large majority were always required… and this is the best design. Because spinning up nodes is cheap, but Proof of Work mining comes with hardware, electricity & maintenance costs.
1 honest miner is more valuable to the network than 1000 idle nodes that sync with assumevalid enabled anyway.
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