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Are validators in the same cluster (eg same exchange, same user) more likely than unrelated validators to miss attestations at the same time? If so, can we tweak rewards to favor decentralized staking?

Possibly yes.

https://ethresear.ch/t/supporting-decentralized-staking-through-more-anti-correlation-incentives/19116

Don't you think that big operators can just run many validators in many different machines and even geographical locations?

iow unless I am missing something this is trivially gameable?

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Shifting the rewards to the distribution of nodes will still greatly benefit the network. Yes, it's hardly the solution to node censorship, but it will at least provide a more decentralized infrastructure and more resilience to awful situations like AWS outage 😌

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That's the point
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Hmm there is 2 points here.

1. Better for the network -> yes
2. Incentivize solo stakers -> ultimately no (trivially gameable by orgs with resources)