In my view decentralization would come from a lot of validators that actually produce their blocks themselves. So in my view what we need to come to is to make it possible to build your own block without and of course the downside currently I mean you have a ton of freedom but yes currently it is very likely more profitable to outsources. The core goal should be in a way to reduce the emm so to reduce the amount of money you can get extra by building the block in a specific way. There are plenty of proposals out there how to do it and they would all kind of tighten the freedom of how you can block.
In this week’s episode, Anna and Martin Köppelmann, Co-Founder of Gnosis discuss the OFAC sanctions against Tornado Cash and the impact this has had on builders in the community. They specifically focus on how the Tornado action helped reveal centralizing forces in Ethereum as well as the need for decentralization.
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