lightclients

I've been seeing more support for relaxing Ethereum's use of state merklization by delaying it by a block or only computing the root every n blocks.

Friendly reminder that without some form of up to date commitment to the state (like a merkle root) general purpose light clients basically cannot function.

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Despite being a light client maxi, I support this

We need light clients, by we don’t need them to be as fast as full nodes

Subjectivocrat, Lunarpunk, Eschatologist | engineer @ Celestia

If light clients aren't as good as a full node centralized RPC connection, users won't use them.

We need to be able to provide the same if not a better experience to get users and wallets to switch over, with security as an added benefit. I've learned this the hard way trying to advocate for light client usage.

You still need a full node RPC service to query state. Light clients will just give you a eventual confirmation