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Re: Blockchains by number of nodes/validators

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Post by Geee »

I think this is misleading, because every 32 eth stake is considered a validator. If you look at the top depositors by entity, you see that there are just a few entities controlling most of the stake, i.e. there's only a few validator nodes with most of the stake: https://etherscan.io/dashboards/beacon-depositors

Also, the number of nodes doesn't actually matter that much. It's more important that people can run nodes.

Re: Blockchains by number of nodes/validators

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Post by loxias »

Always surprised at how few nodes there are relative to how loud the noise is about crypto. I don't mind deploying a service and running things myself, it seems there are only a few thousand of us in the world. Even Tor only has "a few thousand" nodes.

It might be cute to also see some derived statistics like "market cap/node", average size of transaction, and "estimated cost of 51% attack". ;-)

Re: Blockchains by number of nodes/validators

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Post by cmroanirgo »

literallyWTF wrote: post #9

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What is valuable to one person may not be to another. Does that make it a scam? Most people are adamant that gold is a fundamental unit of value, and yet it's paper value (by volume) is 10x the real thing¹. Does that make gold a scam?

Personally, I'm much more interested in the value inherent in the Human Spirit, but others place almost no value on human life. Insurance companies place a dollar value on human life. I look at words like human resources and see how it collectivises individuals and turns them into cattle, putting a dollar value on something I think is priceless.

People addicted to power are really interested in how many people they can control. Using this metric, managers, ceo's, etc are all buying into the scam that people have value but they're worth less than themselves. Using this metric any job is a scam, & it rides on the back of the notion that a piece of paper with $100 marked on it, formerly backed by gold, is actually worth anything.

¹ https://intelligent-partnership.com/paper-gold-volumes-vs-ph...

Re: Blockchains by number of nodes/validators

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Post by mrsnowman123 »

loxias wrote: post #24

Always surprised at how few nodes there are relative to how loud the noise is about crypto. I don't mind deploying a service and running things myself, it seems there are only a few thousand of us in the world. Even Tor only has "a few thousand" nodes. It might be cute to also see some derived statistics like "market cap/node", average size of transaction, and "estimated cost of 51% attack". ;-)

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Re: Blockchains by number of nodes/validators

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Post by EddySchauHai »

loxias wrote: post #24

Always surprised at how few nodes there are relative to how loud the noise is about crypto. I don't mind deploying a service and running things myself, it seems there are only a few thousand of us in the world. Even Tor only has "a few thousand" nodes. It might be cute to also see some derived statistics like "market cap/node", average size of transaction, and "estimated cost of 51% attack". ;-)

It’s surprisingly complex to run a node unless you’re a seasoned developer, and even then when you add things like updates and potentially even slashing for mistakes it’s not worth it. I spent around two years contracting building test infra for different crypto companies by creating throwaway networks with potentially up to three different cryptos (for bridges) and it was a nightmare. There’s a definite startup idea there to make it easier like spinning up VMs
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