Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that individual validators who choose to exclude certain transactions should be “accepted” to prevent the Ethereum community from becoming “morality police”.
Vitalik Buterin made the comment in response to a Twitter poll from latetot.eth, discussing a hypothetical situation where a validator checks a transaction that doesn’t match his views.
The thread, posted on October 17, asked what should happen if a single validator, in one country at war with another, decides not to process a block because it includes donations to the opposing military force.
I’m a single home validator in Country A. We’re at war with Country B, and I decide I’m not going to count donations to their army when it’s my turn to block. This collector should:
— latetot.eth (@latetot) October 16, 2022
I am a single validator in country A. We are at war with country B, and I decide not to count donations to their army when it’s my turn to block. This collector should:- latetot.eth (@latetot) October 16, 2022
According to the Ethereum co-founder, the response to a censorship situation should be aligned with the level of transgression.
The post attracted considerable attention, as Vitalik explained in the thread that any other answer could cause the Ethereum community to turn into morality police:
I would say “be tolerated”. Nothing to cut or leak or socially coordinate should be considered except for a massive rearrangement of other people’s blocks, without making wrong choices about what to submit.
Any other answer risks turning the ETH community into the morality police
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) October 17, 2022
I would say “to put up”. Cuts, leaks, or anything socially coordinated should only be considered for mass reloading other people’s blocks, not for making bad choices about what to put in. Anything else risks turning the ETH community into the morality police.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) October 17, 2022
In Ethereum’s Proof-of-Stake (PoS) system, validators decide which transactions to include in their blocks, if any. PoS is a modern consensus method that powers decentralized finance (DeFi) projects and cryptocurrencies.
Validators are allowed to decide which transactions to include in a block. what we should not do is encourage promising services like Exchanges or Lido that are so massive and centralized that governments or other third party agents can easily push them forward.
— mao (@5t4rman) October 17, 2022
Validators are allowed to decide which transactions to include in a block. What we shouldn’t do is encourage betting services like Exchanges or Lido that are so massive and centralized that governments or other third-party agents can easily censor them.
— mao (@5t4rman) October 17, 2022
Also responding to the thread, Martin Köppelmann, co-founder of Gnosis and longtime developer of Ethereum decentralized applications, said that he was fine with tolerating the validator in this case, and warned against the censorship of the MEV-boost which rises in Ethereum after the Merger.
For the record, in this particular poll, I would also vote for “toleration”. But the quick MEV-boost rollout was a mistake in retrospect and should have been done more diligently to prevent a situation where 1 entity’s current content curation would affect 52% of all blocks.
— Martin Köppelmann (@koeppelmann) October 17, 2022
As a reminder, in this particular poll, I would vote for “toleration”. But the rapid deployment of MEV-boosting was a mistake and should be done more diligently to avoid a situation where entity content censorship currently affects 52% of all blocks.- Martin Köppelmann (@koeppelmann) 17 October, 2022
Although the thread discusses a hypothetical scenario, concerns about censorship on the Ethereum network increased last week, with 51% of Ethereum blocks meeting the standards of the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) until October 14, as the MEV-Boost relays will only gain market share. month after the upgrade.
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MEV-Boost relays are centralized entities that act as trusted intermediaries between producers and block builders. All Ethereum PoS validators can outsource their block production to other vendors. Due to Ethereum’s upgrade to PoS consensus, MEV-Boost has enabled a more representative distribution of block initiators, rather than a small group of miners under Proof-of-Work (PoW).
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“US regulators are showing more concern about the huge sums flowing in DeFi without any checks. As the Ethereum blockchain is the main blockchain for most of the tokens, the recent transition from PoW to PoS can be used as an argument for their efforts to influence the decentralized market (at least partially of). »
