Re: [bitcoin-dev] Renaming full nodes

2022-01-23 Thread mm-studios via bitcoin-dev
The problem are.miners, it is pretty.innaccessible to be a miner. That's a major isuue for me. Block production is pretty much in hands of the wealthy. 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

[bitcoin-dev] Renaming full nodes

2022-01-23 Thread James Lu via bitcoin-dev
Much of the confusion around the Bitcoin protocol is the concept that mining nodes 'control' the network. I suggest renaming full nodes- to something like "validator node" to emphasize that full nodes check if blocks are valid. Then we could say: "Bitcoin is decentralized because anyone can run