@goatmeal @meowski @KitlerIs6 @bot @Moon @ademan A full (archival) ethereum node requires over 14 TB (https://etherscan.io/chartsync/chainarchive), requires $58K USD worth of ETH to be staked to the node, requires 100% uptime or you'll lose some of your stake, plus a decently powered server, which is a lot more intensive than running a Bitcoin node.

And the Bitcoin nodes do have some level of control, node operators choose what software to run and the miners have to abide by the rules laid out. Take for example the blocksize wars, in which Chinese miners wanted to increase the block size (to the detriment of the node operators).

Though the main differentiation between Bitcoin and Ethereum being that in the former case miners and node operators (transaction relaying) are separate entities, whereas in the latter they are a single entity.