Interesting! I've never thought about a full node in that way but my initial reaction is that it still counts as full because i can send/receive any bitcoin with a wallet that uses that node.

tmoney

After segwit, your program would not work because it would try to spend the outputs, but the rest of the network would say you need to have signature in the witness part of the transaction.

I think that's also where the discussion about "what is a full node" comes up since a legacy node does not validate the new rules thus it does not validate 

I encountered this topic recently in a TG group I am in.
People were discussing what a full node is in the context of banning ordinals.

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> After segwit, your program would not work because it would try to spend the outputs, but the rest of the network would say you need to have signature in the witness part of the transaction.

I see, thanks!

I think that's also where the discussion about "what is a full node" comes up since a legacy node does not validate the new rules thus it does not validate _all_ rules. So is it no longer a full node?

I encountered this topic recently in a TG group I am in.
People were discussing what a full node is in the context of banning ordinals.