I will disagree because if you own the private keys it's your bitcoin, but yes if you can run a node you should to verify your own transactions period.

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How can you verify that bitcoin resides in that address?

Without running a node, you cannot confirm it and you are trusting someone else to provide you the info.

Len is correct.

All roads lead to Len

we can agree to disagree

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