Nodes & verification
“A $200 computer can audit the entire money supply. Yours can.”
Miners write the ledger, but nodes are the judges. A full node is any computer running bitcoin software that independently checks every block and transaction against the rules: valid signatures, no double-spends, no printing beyond schedule. Miners who cheat get their blocks rejected — by thousands of unpaid referees around the world.
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