brypto

it’s 2025

fuck users that run nodes locally for personal use 

and royally fuck those amongst us that are holding the whole fucking ecosystem back in order to cater to the autistic fucktards that run nodes locally

@iang_fc Having consensus on state roots directly gives light clients a very good and high-assurance view of what everyone agreed to.

@iang_fc The idea of average users personally validating the entire history of the system is a weird mountain man fantasy. There, I said it.

vitalik.eth

Evergreen tweet

https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/873177382164848641

friendly neighborhood shitcaster // working on @pinetree

jesus christ man thank god i missed that tweet back then

Appreciate the clarification!

My point was more so that you were on the right side of history (pun intended) then, but the meta has moved on 

The criticism from OP is that it’s out of touch (ie. a mountain man fantasy) to be focusing on personal full node operations for RPCs when competitive pressures are elsewhere

I appreciate the attention to censorship resistance but personal node ops don’t really address the more pernicious type of censorship that requires type 2 censorship resistance (https://nullchinchilla.me/2023/05/two-kinds-of-censorship-resistance/)

So this feels like an opportunity cost of our time and energy because it doesn’t make Eth competitive in the  near term nor does it address the more dangerous threats in the long term

I do not advocate users personally validating (in the 2017 sense of re-executing) the entire history of the chain