"A home miner who also runs a full node is the only participant in the Bitcoin network who simultaneously validates, produces, and controls. The exchange customer does none of these. The pool miner does one. The node operator without a miner does one. The solo miner with a self-hosted node does all three.."
@Kudzai Kutukwa
A compelling case you laid out and I am of the opinion that bitaxe and co, have kicked off a very important reversion to the original Bitcoin thesis that ensures more privacy and freedom than the status quo of getting coins from exchanges.
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