docs: reframe trust model as run-your-own-node - #201
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Reframes the
## Trust modelsection in CONTRIBUTING.md so the run-your-own-node model is unmistakable.The previous wording ("node is trusted, wallet is thin" / "the wallet trusts the node") was easily misread as trusting a third party. It now states the actual model: the Bitcoin full-node model — your wallet trusts your node, exactly as a Bitcoin wallet trusts your own
bitcoind. "Trusted node" means your node.Clarifications added:
bitcoind.The existing hard rules (thin client, self-hosting easy, thin SDK) are preserved.
This block is mirrored verbatim across zk-coins/node, /sdk, /app, /docs — companion PRs keep all four identical.
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