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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by rfd4sgmk8u on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:35PM (#27199062)
Its the other way round -- nothing forces nodes to accept bad blocks from miners. An honest node would simply ignore the bad data. The exchanges run nodes, so I would rather be generating or receiving transactions on a chain (or fork) that its users are engaging with. Nodes accept blocks from miners, miners don't accept blocks from nodes.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by drdeca on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:57PM (#27200207)
Aren’t both things true? Miners can’t force nodes to accept blocks as being valid, nodes can’t force miners to include transactions in their blocks.

These statements are not in conflict.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by ric2b on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:14PM (#27214535)
The difference being that anyone can mine, so even if 99% of miners are censoring a transaction, it will still likely be confirmed in a block.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by WanderPanda on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:09PM (#27199517)
Isn’t there an incentive to run a node for privacy? With your own node you are not leaking your xpub and you don’t leak your transactions by staring at them on a block explorer
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by Ekaros on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:11PM (#27201203)
Wouldn't your own node unless properly hidden be higher chance of leaking your transactions? As I would expect them to come from your own node... Ofc, tracking the ones made from other services sure it is safer.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by incrudible on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @03:52PM (#27200149)
Where do those honest blocks come from, if not from honest miners? Where do honest miners come from?
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by minsc__and__boo on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:52PM (#27199303)
Nodes still work on consensus, and given that they have no incentivization to exist, they have been dropping in number over years.
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