{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"nomadshiba⚡ wrote","author_name":"nomadshiba⚡ (npub1gk…sppqk)","author_url":"https://yabu.me/npub1gkp4cdh5rktehjqjnqc09awey4302dpadlka6mes4fu5spes7fhqfsppqk","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://yabu.me","html":"that's not running kaspa, it just a peeking node/relay.\n\nso you're trusting a handful of full real nodes for the entire history of the chain, since your pruned node doesn't replay anything.\n\nit just accepts a UTXO snapshot. if those archival nodes lie, you can't detect it if you weren't listening during that time.\n\nand if the ~317 node operators wanted to change the rules, what stops them? you just had a hard fork last month that the whole community \"smoothly\" complied with, and the installer you linked auto-updates itself. that's not a decentralized consensus, that's a dev team with a release schedule.\n\nalso curious what the bandwidth looks like at 100 bps, since you're already throttled to 9 peers just to make 10 bps manageable on normal hardware.\n\nit sounds like another high-throughput-first crypto project, but with the illusion of node running."}