You need to study Bitcoin harder and listen less to shitcoiners or people who manipulate you, like Jameson Slopp for example.
Coinbase the company matters to their customers. Their node is the same as everyone elseses node and is part of the whole network. There are no special nodes.
How do transactions make it to the network? Work back from that and tell me that a node that pushes more transaction to the network is doing the same work as your node that simply verify the chain like all the other nodes and once a year sends a few sats to cold storage. No one would care if your node went down. Thousands would care if coinbases did. Therefore your node is less important.
You have a fucked up point of view.
What happened with FTX node? Anyone cares about it?
What happened with MtGox node? Anyone cares about it?
Should I go on?
If Coinbase stops their customers will be affected. If it dies, there are more than enough alternatives and version 2 by a different entity would be born as well.
Tick tock, next block. Long Live Bitcoin Plebs and Bitcoin!
People care the moment they need to transact and can’t. Otherwise they don’t care. Still don’t change the fact that the Coinbase node is doing more work than yours and has more economic value. I’m sorry that bothers you.
As a rule nodes are not that important individually. Again Bitcoin is not a democracy so your choice of node software doesn’t matter except to you.
You contradic yourself. Are nodes not important individually or they are important for the individuals?
Your thingking is completely messed up. I see that you like to suck corporate dick. If you like it do it. But its not how Bitcoin network works. Bitcoin is decentralized. And all nodes matter.
Also don't forget that all Coinbase customers can run their own node and that way they won't need Coinbase at all.
So you stating that nodes does not matter individually is a complete and utter bullshit.
The nodes matter to the individuals. They don’t provide those individual any control over the network or matter to any other individual. The only people concerned about other peoples nodes are the fucking weirdos over at knots.
