The problem are.miners, it is pretty.innaccessible to be a miner. That's a major isuue for me.<br>Block production is pretty much in hands of the wealthy.<br>Any correlation between be wealthy and run a honest node? Not any under my eyes. Skipping the part of the narrative saying 'they are honest bcs they have skin in the game'. That's not scientific to me.<br>Block validation yes, the network is pretty decentralized.<br>Thanks.<br><br><br>Sent from ProtonMail mobile<br><br><br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>On 23 Jan 2022, 02:44, James Lu via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:<blockquote class="protonmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Much of the confusion around the Bitcoin protocol is the concept that mining nodes &#39;control&#39; the network.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I suggest renaming full nodes- to something like &quot;validator node&quot; to emphasize that full nodes check if blocks are valid.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Then we could say:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">&quot;Bitcoin is decentralized because anyone can run a validator node, even on a low-end laptop.&quot;</div></div>
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