Some may be, which is why it is important that no single dev has much control, and bitcoin is incredibly difficult to change by default.
I wouldn't say node usage is pathetically low but it is what it is. We cannot force people to run nodes, but the priority is to make them as easy and cheap to run as possible and I think we have been pretty successful on that front.
We should all run nodes. It’s one of the best ways to tell Satoshi Nakamoto thank you
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Would be nice to have mobile phone storage to get cheap enough to have pruned nodes running, even if intermittently.
The low node count really isn’t great, it’s just illustrative of lack of knowledge of what Bitcoin represents and the roles we all play in this system.
The network value at the root, is more related to node runners vs rest of metrics.
I’ve was running an Umbrel node for two years but every few months I’d discover it had stopped working at some point for no apparent reason. Enough is enough.
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