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> 1000 validators is very centralized. All you have to do is bribe 2/3rds of them control the chain. The network can be halted when 1/3rd of the nodes collude.
by lui8906 5y ago
> 1000 validators is very centralized. All you have to do is bribe 2/3rds of them control the chain.
The network can be halted when 1/3rd of the nodes collude. To my knowledge this allows you to halt the network but not reorg blocks or double spend.
> Solana scales through centralization, not new ideas in blockchain scalability.
Nonsense. They made different tradeoffs than Ethereum and a number of innovations were made possible by those different decisions.
Source: https://medium.com/solana-labs/7-innovations-that-make-solana-the-first-web-scale-blockchain-ddc50b1defda https://medium.com/solana-labs/7-innovations-that-make-solan...