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Very good question
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I believe neither network requires that you actually have "stake" to merely participate in gossip of the protocol messages; data validation is based on proof-of-work, or anchored into the UTXO set, and the entire ecosystem has an interest in making the data outwards-visible for newcomers interested in joining.
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Are you talking ~lightning node or ~bitcoin node? Because are not the same, and seems you mixing them up.