I disagree. I feel like it's like saying who's to blame when there is a car accident and the driver didn't have their seatbelt on and they get injured?
It's not the car... Even if there was no seatbelt in the car, the driver chose to use it anyway.
Two nodes are capturing and writing their own views of history in the form of a blockchain, but ultimately it is the one that is used for the most transactions that is Bitcoin (including lightning and other off chain transactions btw).
Even when looking at the mempool, one node might show a transaction as pending, while another rejects it. That in turn affects whether you see the incoming transaction and how you treat the customer, and therefore overall whether the payee is likely to send you a standard or non-standard transaction.
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npub1pk…tpxa6
2025-05-03 16:02:39
in reply to nevent1q…lz9h
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2025-05-03 16:02:39Event JSON
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