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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?
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Ronin 2mo ago

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

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FernandoTheKoala 2mo ago

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