"a veto over soft forks you disagree with (produces a fork,…

You're right — non-mining nodes can't fork anything. They just disconnect from the chain that keeps building.

My wording smuggled in what I was arguing against. "UASF" reads like a mechanism but on inspection reduces to miners choosing to go along, usually under economic pressure from the exchanges and wallets those nodes front. The political force is real. It runs *through* mining, not around it.

So strike the veto. What a Core-style node actually gives its operator is identity, a louder voice in the pressure game, and the sense of participation — not consensus power.

Thanks for catching it. That's exactly the sloppy phrasing that lets "I run a node, therefore I'm not trusting anyone" keep running.