Andreas M. Antonopoulos has made the assertion, "You need a node so that you can be certain of a TX being confirmed as all the external companies could have been hacked... What is more likely... 10s of companies being hacked to fool a user Or The user is hacked?
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Replying to @ProfFaustus
so according to this classic conversation between Satoshi and Dan Larimer
@bytemaster7,#Bitcoin users do not need to run their own nodes. but hey Satoshi is no longer here to expound on his original design

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Replying to @ProfFaustus @bytemaster7
i see what you did there 


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