The nodes that actually matter are the ones used to broadcast large amounts of transactions, as they will decide which fork has the higher security budget and hence higher hash rate.
People who think that Bitcoin is immume to coersion by capital because they can run their own nodes don't understand how that consensus is formed.
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Its not only that and its best explained in Renaud's article that you better read.
There are 3 main forces in Bitcoin - nodes, miners and the market.
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