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It does make it centralized, just take a look at the spec requirements to see how unrealistic it is to expect high participation (let alone technical knowledge)
by hanniabu 5y ago
It does make it centralized, just take a look at the spec requirements to see how unrealistic it is to expect high participation (let alone technical knowledge)
https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqs https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqs
- EMM_386 5y agoHardware is always improving and costs drop ... isn't it only a matter of time until these requirements are nothing?
- kevingadd 5y agoDo you expect the requirements to run a node to stay flat even as network usage increases and the history grows longer?
- anonymoushn 5y agoHistory is stored on Arweave. Solana validators only store a small suffix of the history.
- hanniabu 5y agoAnd by that time the network will be either sufficiently (more) centralized, irrelevant, or both.
- anonymoushn 5y agoIt costs $80,000 to run an Ethereum POS validator.