Obviously you don't store coins in a publicly accessible node, I don't know where you got that idea. You run the node and connect your light wallet to it, so t

Obviously you don't store coins in a publicly accessible node, I don't know where you got that idea. You run the node and connect your light wallet to it, so that you don't need to trust someone else's node to tell you what is going on. I run mine on an old netbook. Some people might store their private keys on the nodes themselves, they shouldn't.