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by weddpros 3154 days ago
Majority of participants in the network. I run a full node, I don't mine, but my voice counts. Of course I don't like the weight of huge mining farms, and I hope there will be viable alternatives to proof of work, to make BTC more democratic.

In the meantime, not a single country controls BTC, and even heavy weight miners can't decide unilaterally...
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EliRivers 3154 days ago
Is it the majority of nodes, then? If I run ten nodes and you run one, I get ten times as many votes as you?
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130434089 3154 days ago
Only miners really matter, if you only have a full node you don't have control over the network, just the ability to verify it. You will have to follow wherever the miners lead you.
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weddpros 3154 days ago
The following is just my understanding, correct me if I'm wrong:

People don't connect directly to miners. They connect to nodes (8000+) which forward to miners. Nodes can declare an order is valid or invalid and they can blacklist bad-behaving miners. They can refuse nodes/miners that signal a change they don't agree with.

So I think full nodes are VERY important in the network and their voice counts. That's why I'm running one.

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