Realistically speaking, what % of the population will run Bitcoin nodes?
It can't be more than 1%
The majority of people won't even have a UTXO - mathematically speaking
What's their incentive to run a node?
It happened with land ownership
Some people own land
But most don't
Jor
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2026-06-25 12:53:40 UTC
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