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Validation Sovereignty

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Validation sovereignty means deciding Bitcoin's rules by verifying them yourself instead of outsourcing validation to a wallet provider, service, or remote node. It is the practical user-facing consequence of don't trust, verify.

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Curated resources (3)

• Bitcoin Dev Philosophy: Don’t trust, verify (article) Explains why self-verification matters and what is lost when you delegate it.
• Bitcoin Dev Philosophy: Trustlessness (article) Frames validation as the practical way to use Bitcoin without trusting third parties.
• Bitcoin Development Philosophy (book) Directly aligned with the philosophy and engineering tradeoffs behind self-validation.

Direct prerequisites (1)

• Trustlessness

Direct dependents (1)

• Full Node vs Lightweight Wallet

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