And all the calls go through Infura which runs on AWS. Joe Lubin (former Goldman Sachs) owns ~50% of both Metamask and Infura.
Centralized much?
Centralized much?
I acknowledge that this is still much more decentralised in comparison to status quo but it is important to acknowledge also that it is still not as decentralised as it is marketed to be.
For an archival node you might also need to buy a large hard drive, but it's feasible.
Not sure what's infeasible for you, but to me that sounds pretty reasonable.
If you've the skills just download geth and run it yourself in your own hardware. There are people who do this on a daily basis to mine eth and they're not hackers.
I doubt anyone is able to sync a full node from genesis block anymore.
Because 1 terabyte of storage space is so out of reach, today? [1]
Ethereum Chain Full Sync Data Size: 954.28 GB as of 09/06/2021 [2]
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-1TB-SSD-WDS100T2B0A/dp/B073... [2] https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_chain_full_sync_data...
i suppose life is more satisfying on the surface, when you only need to argue against straw-men, but surely that's a ticking time bomb?
just stop and think for a second. you don't need to go down this road. drop the initial straw-man and try asking a question if you don't understand what's being argued.
if you're unable to walk back the thread, i'll remind that you were the one who started straw-maning by assuming that i think chainsize alone is the problem with syncing a full node.
stop making assumptions and start asking questions.
Walk back the thread yourself and notice my opening is a question.
You replied with a strawman disguised as a question instead of answering it.
Edit: don't read this as "when in future Infura dies", this has already happened in the past and huge chunks of crypto world were left stranding.