Someone explain this like I'm 5. Or just tell me its wrong. Cuz either way, a lot of people gave the wrong idea.
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bc it's when you receive that you tell how you want to receive, legacy/segwit/taproot and that you validate if the tx is valid.
Miners are the slaves of the nodes, nodes dictate and enforce the rules in the network. If everyone decided to run 0.1 that's the version of bitcoin that would be available.
Yeah. I meant the part about receivers having the power over the network. That's a bit of nuance that had escaped me. I get it now... So I guess the "economic node" thing actually does make sense.
Node choice significantly matters concerning disputes about consensus rules.