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A witness node differs from normal nodes by its mandatory behavior. A witness node has to post periodically units on the chain to validate as fast as possible previous transactions (from normal nodes) by referencing them as parents.
Hmmm afaik, a witness has no mandatory behavior. They post each 100 units or less in order to receive payload bytes from units referencing them, but they can no posting at all. Am I wrong? I do not remember reading that on the whitepaper.
True, be an official witness requires a high reputation within the Byteball community and the chance to have your witness unit selected as lighthouse is very low to not say inexistant. But this point can't stop you to run your own witness node and to set it in your main wallet to be your own witness and have your transaction confirmed faster. And if your friends trust you, you can be their permuted witness. And more people trust you, more chances you have to see your witness unit selected as a milestone of the main chain and even give you the hope to be elected as official in future.
Would you trust any individual? I dont know who to trust, so I let the hub/network restrictions decide.
In plus, running a non-official witness node will create an alternate version of history that could save all the chain integrity in case of unfortunate behaviors by one or more witnesses.
All chain integrity could be harm by unfortunate behaviors by one or more witnesses??!?!? Really??
By the way, in my interpretation, the majority of witnesses means 6+1.
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