The act of users participating in consensus directly on their personal PCs is typically called “running a node” or “participating as a node in the consensus protocol.”

In blockchain and distributed systems, a node is any computer that takes part in validating data and helping reach agreement (consensus) across the network. When Over provides infrastructure so that regular users can do this from their own machines, those users are running a consensus node (often just shortened to “running a node”) and thereby participating in the network’s consensus mechanism.