what is also really interesting for me is what the cost scales with.
Validators:
rn it costs ~$100/ month to run validator?
10 validators = $1k/month
100 = $10k/month
linear with every notch of "more decentralized" is more infra you fund.
should < 1 msg / s require less decentralization than 1k msg / s?
what is the incentive to start validating?
Blobs:
you rent Ethereum's validator set by the byte. 10 blobs or 10,000, the same. all ethereum validators back the availability. Your cost scales with data, not with decentralization. The mirror at today's Farcaster is ~$5/mo, and that $5 rides the biggest, most-distributed validator set on earth.
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