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Running one node doesn’t verify decentralization by counting others. It verifies decentralization because I don’t need permission or trust to participate. I can independently verify the ledger, enforce the rules locally, and ignore invalid blocks—no registry, no coordinator, no approval. Being able to count nodes is irrelevant. Privacy hides network topology by design; it doesn’t create trust. By your logic, how many Nostr relays running behind Tor “don’t count”? Are they suddenly centralized because you can’t see them? Decentralization is permissionless participation plus independent verification—not public visibility.