> extremely decentralized network
Can you provide source for this claim? I thought that infura was the dominant infrastructure provider for eth and if it gets taken down, a majority of the apps goes down too.
Can you provide source for this claim? I thought that infura was the dominant infrastructure provider for eth and if it gets taken down, a majority of the apps goes down too.
You can choose one of ~20 different free RPC endpoints: https://ethereumnodes.com/
This doesn't include private or paid RPCs or just running your own.
So the claim of 'extremely decentralized network' is somewhat of a myth and a falsehood.
[0] https://ethernodes.org/networkType/Hosting
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/03/announcin...
However, many of these are not mining nodes that secure the network (and therefore security of the blockchain), but instead are nodes run by dApp/web3 developers to handle things like indexing NFTs and the current state inside a smart contract.[1] It is easy to spin up a geth node for a task like this—and by default mining is not enabled. I haven't seen any stats on the total number of mining nodes and their network types.
I agree that too much of the traffic is going through AWS, and I suspect all of these stats will need to be re-examined after the PoS Merge.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/ksdu11/how_can_et...
As a general rule - its very difficult to get anything close to an authoritative census of a decentralized peer to peer protocol.
[0] https://nttr.stream/peter_szilagyi/status/146057566700382617...