What are full nodes, light nodes, and validators each doing? Many people can't answer!
After the "Merge," running an Ethereum node requires running both an execution-layer client and a consensus-layer client.
The point of running your own full node is that you don't have to trust a third party for data: whether blocks and transactions are valid is checked by your own node.
Understand the principles better before getting started; don't make decisions based on intuition.
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