This is non-sensical. Abstractions are of course a good thing, just like code re-use, modularisation and not reinventing the wheel. But using centralised services in a p2p paradigm for decentralised apps is short sighted, missing the point and at worst dangerous.https://twitter.com/backus/status/1055890296049823745 …
What are the worst case outcomes in your opinion that come from an early stage dapp startup using Infura?
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Infura revenues go up, build powerful and optimised eth node datacentre. Everyone builds apps on top of infura api. Ethereum grows according to that model. Infura break, bankrupt or go rogue, everyone bails out and spins up own nodes... no one can cos eth needs infura scale nodes
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and what? Ethereum ecosystem just dies? Or we see outages for like a day or two?
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If would be a permanent outage for anyone wanting to run their own node who didnt have large wealth to support bloated node/chain. We could replace infura with another sevice provider but that is still centralised and erodes the censorship resistance properties of the paradigm.
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Infura just runs a load balanced (and pretty limited functionality) geth node interface. No offense, but I think the stuff you're worried about here is pretty unfounded
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I hope youre right. I do consider decentralisation, for censorship resistance, to be the objective. Assuming that property is fine but strggling to run a node shows the paradigm failing already, it will only be exarcerbated by ‘centralising for now until it works’.
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Okay heres another way of looking at it. If it’s expensive today to run a node, why not just charge higher fees? Isnt using infura today just prematurely optimising for low fees?
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Oh sorry, you had included prematurely cost saving in your earlier tweet already. In that case i think we agree on some things and are just debating the value of investing fast and breaking things versus nurturing the core properties of these systems.
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