are all community members (or pockets holders right here) all the time thought of nodes?
As Andrew Chow’s reply suggests, that is actually a terminological query about how we outline node. One technique to reply that is to have a look at Satoshi Nakamoto’s unique whitepaper the place Nakamoto writes:
8. Simplified Fee Verification
It’s attainable to confirm funds with out working a full community node. A consumer solely must preserve
a replica of the block headers of the longest proof-of-work chain, which he can get by querying
community nodes till he is satisfied he has the longest chain, and acquire the Merkle department
linking the transaction to the block it is timestamped in. He cannot examine the transaction for
himself, however by linking it to a spot within the chain, he can see {that a} community node has accepted it,
and blocks added after it additional verify the community has accepted it.
(my emphasis)
So it appears to me that Nakamoto is describing a node in the best way Andrew suggests – Nakamoto is saying that an SPV pockets communicates with community nodes however I feel his wording strongly suggests an SPV pockets is just not thought of to be a community node itself.
Personally, I discover it a bit shocking that a pc that makes use of a selected protocol to speak with different computer systems is just not thought of a node within the community of computer systems utilizing that protocol. Nevertheless I can see that the excellence Nakamoto makes, between a node (full community node or community node) and a simplified cost verifier, is a vital one. Both means, it’s in all probability greatest to undertake the terminology utilized by Nakamoto until there is superb cause to not.
