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A centralized database is owned by a centralized entity and the admin can change it at will to steal money - or at least the owner of the hardware can shut off

A centralized database is owned by a centralized entity and the admin can change it at will to steal money - or at least the owner of the hardware can shut off power. Let's talk about Ethereum here since Solana hardly counts as decentralized. Ethereum stakers are subject to an Inactivity Leak penalty if they don't do work for the chain. If a validator decides to stop proposing or attesting to blocks, they will be penalized by the network and lose money. There's about $20bn of ETH staked that can literally disappear from existence if all of those validators decide to stop doing work. This is an even better incentive mechanism than a bank salary. It's like if a bank made all it's employees keep all their money with the bank and if they didn't do their job they lose all their savings.

RC_ITR 4y ago
> Let's talk about Ethereum here since Solana hardly counts as decentralized. 1) My joke was how much work you were having “properly secured” do. It’s a genuine trope called no true Scotsman. Every crypto phenomenon that involves theft “wasn’t decentralized enough” or “wasn’t properly secured”. But then centralized databases are discussed as a monolith. 2. > Ethereum stakers are subject to an Inactivity Leak penalty if they don't do work for the chain. Sure. That’s an economic incentive. Bank workers get fired and lose salary if they don’t show up. 3. > It's like if a bank made all it's employees keep all their money with the bank and if they didn't do their job they lose all their savings. Yeah, like getting paid in stock? Edit: still waiting for the definition of a mempool as well.