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If Infura was compromised tomorrow, it could cause a bunch of damage to Ethereum ecosystem, it wouldn't even remotely be structural. You act like Infura owns 50
by splintercell 7y ago
If Infura was compromised tomorrow, it could cause a bunch of damage to Ethereum ecosystem, it wouldn't even remotely be structural. You act like Infura owns 50% of the mining power. It's just one aspect of Ethereum layers which is dominated by Infura.
But if you keep creating these arbitrarily created measures, you can just as easily say "Bitcoin is centralized because bitcoin domain names and subreddits are owned by a single entity" (and this single entity managed to dominate the block size debate).
If Chinese firewall goes up tomorrow, bitcoin would suffer a big damage. If Congress passes FATCA/FBAR reporting regulations for crypto, sanctions on China, bitcoin would suffer a big damage. But the idea is that none of these things would kill Bitcoin, and that's the main thing.
You're calling Ethereum a 'centralized blockchain' because you're trying to cognitively justify against the vastly superior feature set of a competing blockchain.
Ethereum fanboys do the same when they've to argue against scalability of TRON/EOS etc or other chains.
- grubles 7y agoControlling node consensus is the most important "layer". Nodes enforce protocol rules. If most "dapps" are using Infura, then Infura can easily force changes upon not only the dapps themselves but the entire network. Ethereum's engineering decisions have absolutely led to this, as well. Arbitrary "dapps" do not need a blockchain. Having all of this unnecessary data "on the blockchain" makes it bloated and impossible to validate, leading to entities like Infura.