It’s not bonkers, and it doesn’t invalidate the reason to have non-mining nodes.
Non-mining nodes hold and propagate YOUR OWN txns to the wider network, and it validates blocks so the user knows the accurate state of the network.
Running your own node is great, even if it doesn’t mine.
lightningspore / LightningSpore
npub1sp…rj02v
2025-05-09 20:29:47
in reply to nevent1q…jwfd
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npub1sp0rex959gshtgypve45upmm4vepxm4xea9eja4f2ftfj97euv5s3rj02vPublished at
2025-05-09 20:29:47Event JSON
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