[rfd4sgmk8u]

Its the other way round -- nothing forces nodes to accept bad blocks from miners. An honest node would simply ignore the bad data. The exchanges run nodes, so I would rather be generating or receiving transactions on a chain (or fork) that its users are engaging with. Nodes accept blocks from miners, miners don't accept blocks from nodes.

[drdeca]

Aren’t both things true? Miners can’t force nodes to accept blocks as being valid, nodes can’t force miners to include transactions in their blocks.

These statements are not in conflict.

[ric2b]

The difference being that anyone can mine, so even if 99% of miners are censoring a transaction, it will still likely be confirmed in a block.

[WanderPanda]

Isn’t there an incentive to run a node for privacy? With your own node you are not leaking your xpub and you don’t leak your transactions by staring at them on a block explorer

[Ekaros]

Wouldn't your own node unless properly hidden be higher chance of leaking your transactions? As I would expect them to come from your own node... Ofc, tracking the ones made from other services sure it is safer.

[incrudible]

Where do those honest blocks come from, if not from honest miners? Where do honest miners come from?

[minsc__and__boo]

Nodes still work on consensus, and given that they have no incentivization to exist, they have been dropping in number over years.