Over on Bitcoin Twitter, people are saying you can have a self custody setup without running a node. Have a feeling that Nostr better understands how Bitcoin works.
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You can, you’re just trusting someone else’s node
Baby steps, it's a process. Takes a while longer to become sufficiently motivated by desire for self sovereignty.
You don't need a node to custody keys
You do if you want to privately move Bitcoin those keys control.
### Having a node means that:
* you aren't advertising to some other node or API server what your addresses and transactions are. This increases your privacy.
* you also get to broadcast your own transactions without asking anyone's permission. This increases autonomy and self-sovereignty.
* you are participating in validation of blocks and transaction. This increases your role in defining what bitcoin is.