{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"Ava wrote","author_name":"Ava (npub1f6…azcka)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"Running one node doesn’t verify decentralization by counting others.\n\nIt verifies decentralization because I don’t need permission or trust to participate. I can independently verify the ledger, enforce the rules locally, and ignore invalid blocks—no registry, no coordinator, no approval.\n\nBeing able to count nodes is irrelevant. Privacy hides network topology by design; it doesn’t create trust.\n\nBy your logic, how many Nostr relays running behind Tor “don’t count”? Are they suddenly centralized because you can’t see them?\n\nDecentralization is permissionless participation plus independent verification—not public visibility."}