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I am not a hardcore bitcoiner, but the price would fall quickly if these few controlling nodes would do something malicious. Which is against their own interest.


Probably. But a core aspect of decentralization is that you shouldn’t need to trust a few others at all.


I think it's more like limits: Trust minimization, not trust elimination.


Who cares about technicalities, the point was to let people hold the system in their own hands.


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