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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @BTCMiner 30 Sep 2022 \ parent \ on: Bitcoin Miners Don’t Exist — But Bitcoin Validators Do bitcoin
If they did not validate they would be at risk of including invalid transactions in a block. So technically, they do validate transactions in the block solving. But you are correct in a general sense -- miners do not validate transactions for the network.
Here was another attempt at describing what miners do:
https://twitter.com/IIICapital/status/1575824947175337984 [Nitter]
You right. I think for newbies and newcomers it's better to tell them this because of all garbage articles in msm media about bitcoin they just think miners validate all tx on the network and are not even aware of nodes.
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