[Off]

I'm not sure about this. It is optimistic to see big actors getting into Ethereum but i don't think we should be happy about it. A "centralized" decentralized network running on Amazon servers? Are we learning from the past or are we repeating the same mistakes again?

[DennisP]

This isn't about running Ethereum on Amazon servers. They're not talking about mining or staking.

This is about making it easy to connect corporate networks to the public Ethereum chain. It's a full node, so it's talking directly to the p2p network instead of sending your transactions through some third-party provider like Infura, but it's not producing blocks.

[cs702]

I think it's a positive. If large institutions replace chunks of their legacy financial infrastructure with decentralized, lower-cost infrastructure running over large, distributed blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum), we would all be better off.

[wmf]

Note that Infura is far worse and has existed for years. https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/a-deep-dive-int... https://www.coindesk.com/the-race-is-on-to-replace-ethereums...