Mariano Sorgente
@mar
Having many nodes validating a blockchain is great for censorship resistance. The blockchain becomes more resilient to many attacks like hacks, DOS, legal requests, and bribes. However, it’s also good for scalability. If you are a user that doesn’t trust a central RPC provider...
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Mariano Sorgente
@mar
like Infura/Alchemy, you can query a random node to ask for data, and validate that the data is hashed into the blockchain. More nodes means more users can do this (aka running a light client). Usually the performance is significantly worse than the centralized providers though.
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