Ethereum

Cross-posting a thought on staking from the other app:

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Perhaps we should recognize that 32 ETH is much more of a barrier for stakers than bandwidth reqs, and temporarily do a trade where we up the bandwidth reqs a bit and in exchange drop the staking deposit minimum to eg. 16 or 24 ETH.

It's net-good for both staking accessibility and scale. Then once we figure out peerdas, bandwidth reqs go back down, and once we figure out orbit SSF, the deposit minimum can drop to 1 ETH.

Counterpoint: at 32 ETH, one validator makes ~$3k a year = only very slightly more than the zero-labor option of holding stETH/rpETH.

The limiting factor isn't stake--it's the complexity and toil of running a validator. Make it painless to validate and many more will do it!

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If you actually want more home stakers:

- Remove the 32eth cap. One validator instead of 10 = less complexity, less bandwidth, the one thing you can't easily buy more of.
- Fund projects that make it max easy to run a node!

https://warpcast.com/dcposch.eth/0xb1bc51b8

EthStaker

Lots of ways to be earning much more on your eth than the 2-3% a solo staking node earns

Is there anything Ethereum/anyone is doing to raise the incentives to solo stake from home? The opportunity costs is $3-10k/year 😓

It’s actually less profitable to run your own node than just do low-risk DeFi stuff

It’s actually less profitable to run your own node than just do low-risk DeFi stuff

https://warpcast.com/brenner.eth/0x381c0114

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#1 is fine. For validating to be  economical you need to be running at least several anyway. 2 and 3 are comparatively small.

#4 could be easily improved by uncapping stake per validator.

It’s #5 that gets you.

it doesn't make a lo of sense when you consider what's required:
- Large upfront capital investment
- Hardware costs
- Energy costs
- Connectivity costs
- Ensuring validator software runs smoothly

Many pain points to solve for

Ya 32 eth doesn’t matter. Being a normal person and running a node and not getting slashed is not plausible. It’s too much to learn or do for most people. 

Rocket pool etc are but systemic risk

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@downshift.eth saw your tweet about running a validator

For me it's the doxxing of IP addresses that makes it impossible

It should be like mynode on btc, as easy as plugging in a raspberry pi.