Farcaster Devs

Reading the Snapchain doc: https://warpcast.notion.site/Snapchain-Public-0e6b7e51faf74be1846803cb74493886

Going to cast all my stupid questions in this thread as they come up 🧵👇

> Proof of Stake — Another approach is to follow Ethereum’s staking model. Anyone can run a Hub by staking ETH on a contract 

I think PoA would be better than this — this turns validator elections into an ETH bridging / event messaging problem, which is arguably worse

Give examples where the validator set is a decent size (10+) and are controlled by reasonably distinct entities?

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

http://opacity.network

You can run Tendermint on way fewer validators

~100 is a schelling point for a comfortable upper limit if you want to keep block times at 5-6 seconds, but with optimizations, can get up to ~150

Tendermint requires 100 validators iirc to work

No, I'm just saying PoS using ETH in a system where ETH is not the native asset forces you to use a bridge, and now we're back at square one re: who validates the bridged events and/or assets

your argument being that you can't just have stake to write and would need to have consensus between all write hubs to publish a block. thus, system is still prone censorship by whoever has more ETH?