Care to clarify a node related discussion i had with a dude?
The dude said that unless you run a node with public IP and lots of bandwithd than you are not contriibuting to decentralization. And he also made the example that if you had a node on Mars you wouldn’t contribute shit to decentralization
I said, well you can have it dual stack (both tor and clearnet) and as long as your bandwithd isn’t absolute shit you are still contributing to decentralization
Is one of us retarded here?
I’m not an expert. In my understanding you aren’t really contributing to decentralization unless you are mining. Running a node is more about not relying on a 3rd party and also helps with privacy. You’re also distributing another copy of every transaction which adds to decentralization as well.
All that to say, I’m no expert but I think there are degrees to which one aids decentralization and running a node is at minimum a step in that direction. But my understanding is that for more decentralization we need that in the block creation and mining more than on the node side.
It helps decentralization in the sense that the more nodes especially geographically spread the better, it helps censorship resistance, if a country/region blocks the internet or power goes down, there are still many nodes serving the network
Totally agree on the geographical distribution aspect 👍🏼
But where I got stuck in the conversation with the dude was “only tor vs tor&clearnet”. He said that if your node is only Tor (and not also clearnet) then you are not helping decentralization. Just trying to get if this is accurate
