Many seasoned Bitcoin users think of “running a node” as an optional virtue signal: you download the software, sync once, and your wallet is now somehow more trustworthy. That’s half true but incomplete in ways that matter for privacy, sovereignty, and risk management. A full node does not merely hold keys or broadcast transactions; it independently enforces consensus rules, verifies proof-of-work, and validates history. For an advanced user in the US deciding whether to operate a full Bitcoin node, the differences between trusting a third-party node, running a pruned node,…
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