brypto

I never vibed with the "Forget full nodes, lean into the Nakamoto coefficient" approach to decentralization

But given Ethereum is only able to keep up with Solana fee markets with centralized rollups, it reduces the bar collectively to what is "good enough"

I have lowered my standards significantly

i think, it is enough if the light nodes can sample the state and verify the execution proofs

IIUC, I think Vitalik discussed this in this piece under the "Light clients and fraud proofs" section: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2020/08/17/philosophy.html

In this scenario, who "raises the alarm"? I think we still need entities running fully verifying nodes to monitor the network and flag issues

he also mentions this scenario that i described above. as long as data is published, and sampling nodes collectively ensure that it is available then the validity proofs of execution are good enough