Ok, if any hived node can do the job, then why only a few are used by the apps? I'm curious because I'm observing similar behaviour in the WAX blockchain and can't figure it out
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Ok, if any hived node can do the job, then why only a few are used by the apps? I'm curious because I'm observing similar behaviour in the WAX blockchain and can't figure it out
An api node does things like provide posts, voting data, account history, etc. You need these bigger, beefier servers to serve up the information for the dapps and websites, but to broadcast a transaction you only need any hived on the p2p network
I think I got it now, thanks. And your other comments on this post were very helpful to see the picture more clearly