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  • Does counterparty have its own set of nodes to keep its service up?
  • Is it pow or pos system? Or is this just a centralized service?
  • What was the purpose of it burning bitcoins to generate their own counter party tokens when its somewhat centralized?
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Yes it does, the project runs a reference node.

The PoW comes from Bitcoin, but anyone can run a Counterparty node. I don't know if there's a name for it, but maybe it could be described as a community consensus approach. All Counterparty nodes can validate transactions embedded in the blockchain.

The purpose of burning BTC was to make it a non-scam token. Those who burned BTC committed to the project. Another way to put it is it's a project without "investors". Proof of Burn was rare then and in the flood of ICO scams, it's never applied these days.

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  • Where is the link to run your own counter party node? – Patoshi パトシ Oct 22 '17 at 19:22
  • https://github.com/CounterpartyXCP/Documentation/blob/master/Installation/federated_node.md - this installs everything in one go, inside of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS VM. Be sure you have 150GB free (because this also installs Bitcoin Core with addindex and txindex). – whatever Oct 27 '17 at 22:19