Vitalik Buterin on Warpcast

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Vitalik Buterin

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

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+1, it's easier to find a good Internet connection than lock in $80k

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@mishaderidder.eth

agree, already solo staking validating Gnosis - if it would be 1 ETH would start solo staking Ethereum today

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Imagine the jump in validator count 😁

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🙋‍♂️ I’d solo stake if the requirement was lowered. Unless you got involved in the space before 2021, acquiring 32 ETH is unachievable for the average person in the developed world, and ludicrous for almost everyone in the developing world.

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I like this. There is want from people to participate in staking who don't have 32 ETH, but might have 8 or 16 to spin up a node. look at the success of /rocketpool -- huge community of stakers under the 32ETH barrier.

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In your opinion are the protocols built on top of ethereum that lower the bond a node operator must supply not effectively addressing this already?

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But there’s already many options to solo/home stake with significantly less than 32 ETH (e.g. obol, stakewise, rocketpool, etc)

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Lowering the ETH requirement could get more folks involved in staking, which is great for decentralization. But watch out for possible hiccups like network congestion, unexpected centralisation from staking pools, security risks, economic imbalance, etc.

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While we are in the subject of staking, when the Pectra update is done (I know it's sounding like it will be a 2 piece update), won't increasing the amount of ETH allowed per node lower the number of nodes out there? Doesn't that run counter to the (I assume) goal you have with this bandwidth/ETH tradeoff you are suggesting in this cast?

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this would be great for many users, especially those of us in emerging markets.

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Lowering the cost to stake would be massive. If Ethereum wants to be Web 3.0, making it more accessible to further decentralize and increase security has to be a priority.

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I was strongly in favor of gas limit increase earlier this year. But now I am a bit puzzled where this push for the blob number increase comes from when even the current offering has not yet entered "price discovery mode"?

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strongly support this! biggest blocker to home staking, as much as I've wanted to, is putting a not-trivial %% of my savings into it 😅

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swampnet.base.eth

I’ve never once had a thought on staking.

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On the other hand, 32 ETH is real skin in the game.

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the internet in Lisbon is super fast but 80k is enough to live for more than 2 years here lol I could look into it when minimum is at 1 ETH though

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Wasn't there a concern that the number of validators was growing to large? Is that subdued? Or with max effective balance, the count should go down, leaving room for more new validators?

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