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@ Big Barry Bitcoin
2025-05-03 11:59:26
The users.
You can own a node that relays transactions, but nothing else. You really have no influence on the network.
But if you accept payment, you have the power to demand. You can demand Bitcoin Cash, you can demand a transaction with a big OP_RETURN, you can demand whatever you want because you have the goods, but of course the buyer has a stake in the decision too, but not as much.
As a user, you choose what Bitcoin node informs you of receipt of payment. If you use your own node, you know what you want. If you use a wallet pointing to someone else's node, you are at risk of getting something you didn't want. I.E. you could be receiving Bitcoin cash.
So ideally you are a user and a node runner, but otherwise you are still the user, but you are following someone else's rules and you are likely uninformed. Therefore although you set the rules, you're doing it with blindfolds on.