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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
I am but a humble home staker, and had previously been running an ETH node since the early PoW days. Still, I hope that any upcoming consensus on the tradeoff between L1 scalability/throughput and decentralization/censorship resistance is informed by a level-headed analysis of actual staking data. Decentralization is Ethereum’s raison d’être. No point in scaling if we place censorship resistance in the hands of a few tens of hyperscaled operators. But I also want scaling to keep up with adoption, and I’m personally ready to upgrade my 2+ year old hardware and/or bandwidth if that’s what it takes. I like to think that most home stakers (not LST hodlers) take their responsibility seriously enough to do that every few years. For sure, it would be awesome if staking nodes could play different roles depending on their access to bandwidth and compute, so that even those stuck with rural or Australia-level connectivity aren’t left behind. But that’s the cherry on top as far as I’m concerned.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
And if you’re on the fence about running a staking node (and can afford to, obviously), please ask your questions in this channel. Ethereum needs more people like you. I still see too many ignorant takes on X along the lines of “I don’t want to get slashed for going offline”.
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