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by trevelyan 1453 days ago
> they have zero power to do anything related to consensus.

Suggest reading what Vitalik has to say if you're going to offer this kind of objection:

https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/papers/disc...

Infura collects upwards of 80 percent of the fees that flow into Ethereum and is in a position to control exactly who participates profitably. If your solution is "minority will fork" the obvious question is surely "with what scalable infrastructure?"

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> Infura collects upwards of 80 percent of the fees that flow into Ethereum

This is obviously false. Can you provide a source?

What does the discouragement attack paper have to do with this?