actually run the network operate the network they're the ones that are incentivized to have full copies of the blockchain the massive hard drives that are requires as as blocks get bigger and out on the edge those whites white circles there they're actually peers I don't call them nodes I call them peers but they're actually the users of the network and that can be people who want to make payments or that can be applications that can be very big applications that are serving millions of users they don't mean to see