Solana

Are there any ideologically driven people involved in Solana? My impression is it’s pure mercenary: decentralization and open source are not taken seriously.

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Why do you think decentralization is not taken seriously?

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I’m not well informed on Solana, but my impression is that the architectural decisions are made to support short term low cost transactions far above and beyond long term decentralized validation. Happy to learn where this impression is incorrect

That sounds pretty decentralized to me! But devil is in the details (Ethereum has its own problems with Flashbots and Lido and now Eigenlayer!)

If Solana can reach 10k truly independent full-nodes spread across 100 countries, is that decentralized enough?

For dapps like Farcaster where much of the action is off-chain, perhaps Ethereum is a better choice. But for heavy on-chain footprints with smart contract composability, Solan is the way.