I stand correct. They do verify the blocks or transaction to see if the blocks follows the rules as specified. If not, it is not relayed. Do read up on full nodes if you still can't get it. "Mining nodes" verify blocks and transactions the same way as any other user node would.
But verification done by user node doesn't affect to anything. Only after miners verificate it 6+ times it can be accepted by exchanger or shop. I mean it.
Your own node of course verificate transaction and block for understanding what to do next: accept them or reject (relay or don't relay). But:
1. it do it due to it's own rules. As i said before, this rules can be different from node to node. Protocol rules it's just RECOMMENDATIONS, not a rules (as in lawmaking).
2. Shop don't accept your transaction only because your node verificate it
So you are saying that SPV clients should trust whatever miners (primarily focusing on profits) says? If only mining nodes exist, the total count of node will drop to less than 100 which makes it susceptible to sybil attacks or DDOS. I doubt even 1000 mining nodes could support everyone and I doubt everyone would trust them as a source for their SPV client.
more miners = better decentralization. 1 miner with 10000000000000 core wallets - network is centralized. 100000000000 miners with 1 core wallet - network is decentralized.
Proof of Work, dude. Not a Proof of user nodes.
In original Satoshi concept every full node was mining node. I quoted it before.
Nah. BU could have been done no matter what, they just won't get a lot of community support.
In that case it would be a hardfork. Without miners support.
Or majority of the users do not support BU and only parts of the userbase support it. I believe market works on the supply and demand principle.
Majority of the users don't fuck at all about 1mb, 2mb, Segwitt and other nerd games
Thay just trading at exchangers, so it's obvious that only exchanger's nodes can affect to miners.
There 6 thousand core wallets in the network, but more than 2 millions of users. If 5500 wallets will dissapear from the network, noone will give a fuck about it
That isn't related to protocol rules but okay..
As i said before, it's recommendations, not rules.