Using a hosted provider at all (even "bare" AWS) does place some trust in the rule of law and your counterparties, we've never suggested that ours is a trustless enterprise, but know some other folks have been less transparent about that sort of thing.
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Yeah for sure. My issue is not at all w hosting nodes. I think that’s wonderful and necessary. My concern is more w those that use marketing tactics to suggest something that is factually untrue.