Running an economic node means using your node regularly to verify the Bitcoin you are receiving. Simply holding Bitcoin does not make your node economic. So you need to be either stacking regularly or spending and replacing. A nice thread on it here (refreshed my memory too 👍)

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tl;dr Your node becomes an economic node when you use it to accept payments in bitcoin. Also: hodlers have no special power to affect the outcome o...