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The way I understand it, nodes help validate transactions in real time. They keep everyone else honest. Otherwise, whoever mined the block could inject whatever
by chrischattin 5y ago
The way I understand it, nodes help validate transactions in real time. They keep everyone else honest. Otherwise, whoever mined the block could inject whatever they wanted. Everyone on the network is validing transactions.
- drdeca 5y agoSure, that's running a node. That's not mining. That's not analogous to staking. The analogy to staking would be mining. The analogy to running a bitcoin node would be running some variety of ethereum node, not staking.