I could have clarified miners versus nodes a bit better. As I went through this again, I felt Satoshi was purposely a bit vague in differentiating the two, so as to keep the paper concise.
But I agree, miners do the mining and nodes do the verifying. Nodes might be considered more advanced than miners. Miners do a complex task: working on the puzzle. But it is only one single task.
Nodes have a bit more complexity in their role at verifying all the transactions, and keeping a copy of the blockchain, that is constantly updated.
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