polynya
@polynya
P2P + ZK - blockchain offers significantly superior decentralization, efficiency, privacy, verifiability, censorship-resistance and permanence The *only* thing blockchains are good for is strict global consensus Alas, many apps are being compromised into blockchains because of financial incentives over rational ones
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✳️ dcposch on daimo
@dcposch.eth
Agree with those except "permanence". In practice every single byte that has ever finalized on Ethereum is easily retrievable today, and that will remain true even with danksharding. I've tried many P2P protocols (dat, zeronet back in the day, torrents ofc) and links broke / showed "0 seeds" all the time
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polynya
@polynya
Blobs are already pruned so not retrievable on Ethereum, history will be pruned with EIP-4444, and eventually state with state expiry/hibernation Indeed, we're relying on P2P systems to not forget data Ethereum has & will Some obscure files are forgotten is an incentivization problem, not one inherent in P2P systems
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✳️ dcposch on daimo
@dcposch.eth
That's just for min viable nodes. Global rate limit + global singleton high value data stream = every byte of blob data will outlast all of us, readily available from many sources
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✳️ dcposch on daimo
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Concretely those include the internet archive, the EF, every infra provider, every block explorer & thousands of archive nodes & torrent seeds. "Serve all the data on bittorrent" is an impossible goal. "Serve all data on eth l1" is by design easy and many will (continue to) do it
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