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> Infrastructure providers can lie to the user about blockchain state Lying implies wilful deception. Instead what ALL providers will eventually do is impleme
by threeseed 5y ago
> Infrastructure providers can lie to the user about blockchain state
Lying implies wilful deception.
Instead what ALL providers will eventually do is implement moderation. And they will do so because (a) they will be legally required to and (b) it makes users happy. And unless the spec can address this requirement Web3 isn't really going to scale.
And we've already seen such moderation with OpenSea so this isn't some contrived situation.
- dystopiabreaker 5y agothis is like saying that TLS won't work because of moderation
- threeseed 5y agoTLS is simply about securing the transport between two parties: a client and a server. It isn't trying to force all servers to return an identical response like Web3 is.
- dystopiabreaker 5y agoi have worked on both TLS and blockchain tech for years. my point is that the purpose of the security architecture proposed in the article is to authenticate data from the chain. this is a protocol-level detail: like TLS secures transport between a client and a server, light clients authenticate data between a validator set and a user. whether a particular person or group decides to use such a protocol, or if they decide to censor data, is a separate concern.
- Ar-Curunir 5y agoThe proposed light client stuff solves exactly this; they can’t lie about inclusion of a piece of data.