You’ll often hear Bitcoiners say, “Only economic nodes matter.”
Economic nodes do have more influence, sure, but non-economic nodes aren’t useless.
Even running a solo node makes you more sovereign than someone who always relies on others’ nodes. You can verify the rules, broadcast your own transactions, more closely monitor updates, and in a worst-case scenario, help reboot the network with a full copy of Bitcoin’s history.
How does your node determine if a node it is connected to is not an economic node?
I think you would need a contentious hard fork situation for this to be seen. Mining nodes would be able to see/determine economic nodes.
So a node cannot determine which nodes are "economic".
So what is anostr:nprofile1qqsph5e28p48hehk3zeaclzgpm7zrnv5ddp74s2t5ja8sd9vw73ru6gpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqxp9svs
talking about?
Pruned, non economic nodes are the bottom rung on the ladder
True. Still, many economic nodes start out that way. Everybody starts somewhere.
Freedom after all, one can choose to run any node however they see fit.
Plus, everybody starts somewhere. Young plebs may start with a personal node just for learning purposes, and years later run economically important nodes. Better to encourage than discourage this behavior, even if most never graduate beyond hobby nodes.
