[abecedarius]

It was a form of "huh, interesting. I tried to quickly find some more evidence for this but failed."

If Claude as search engine were able to link to some backing (maybe like "we estimate around n nodes regularly joining the network, which roughly matches the order of magnitude of estimated users" ) -- that'd be great! I'd have said I was surprised but look what I found.

Instead:

- it couldn't dig up anything supporting, except that Monero sites encourage users to run their own node;

- one point it raised against was confirmed by another reply to my comment ("apps like CakeWallet, where their node is used and assumed as trustworthy"). (Claude listed the same and a couple more wallets it called "popular" with similar trust dependence.)

I agree with GP that just relaying a chatbot is rude. That's why I didn't do that.