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    1. Oscar Pacey‏ @oscpacey Oct 27

      Oscar Pacey Retweeted John Backus

      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 …

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      John Backus @backus
      If you’re building a dapp, ignore stuff like this. Building decentralized apps already has a huge dev overhead, you *should* use centralized abstractions like Infura to save time. https://twitter.com/5chdn/status/1055828869775810560 …
      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    2. John Backus‏ @backus Oct 27
      Replying to @oscpacey

      Premature optimization, premature devops, premature scaling, premature cost saving, premature decentralization. All shades of the same idea.

      1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
    3. Oscar Pacey‏ @oscpacey Oct 27
      Replying to @backus

      Im not really following you. The victorians didnt prematurely optimise sewage systems which resulted in gas leak explosions in the home. Decentralisation is the ‘means to the end’ in a blockchain, it shouldn’t come at the cost of centralisation.

      2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    4. John Backus‏ @backus Oct 27
      Replying to @oscpacey

      What are the worst case outcomes in your opinion that come from an early stage dapp startup using Infura?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    5. Oscar Pacey‏ @oscpacey Oct 27
      Replying to @backus

      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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      John Backus‏ @backus Oct 27
      Replying to @oscpacey

      and what? Ethereum ecosystem just dies? Or we see outages for like a day or two?

      12:39 AM - 27 Oct 2018
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        2. Oscar Pacey‏ @oscpacey Oct 27
          Replying to @backus

          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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        3. John Backus‏ @backus Oct 27
          Replying to @oscpacey

          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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        4. Oscar Pacey‏ @oscpacey Oct 27
          Replying to @backus

          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’.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        5. Oscar Pacey‏ @oscpacey Oct 27
          Replying to @oscpacey @backus

          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?

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        6. Oscar Pacey‏ @oscpacey Oct 27
          Replying to @oscpacey @backus

          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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