Vitalik refutes Péter Szilagyis statement that the Ethereum research team accepts the idea of centralizing everything

Odaily News Vitalik Buterin refuted the statement of Péter Szilágyi, head of the Ethereum team, that the research team fully accepts the idea of centralizing everything as long as it can be verified: I just attended the EF research workshop last week, and I can confirm that this is wrong. We had various discussions on minimizing centralization. This includes: * In-depth analysis of multiple proposers to see if the builder role can be completely eliminated; * Maximizing the power of inclusion lists (FOCIL); * Ideas on fork selection depending on the inclusiveness of transactions; * Analysis of Orbit SSF and ideas on accelerating the deployment of the Orbit mechanism, which may reduce the minimum deposit size by more than 10 times before we do SSF; * Distributed block construction for PeerDAS; * Network analysis and bandwidth optimization of PeerDAS and fullDAS; * Methods to make recovery from 51% attacks more partially automated and reduce dependence on the social layer; * Ensure that inclusion lists are fully applicable to (i) blobs and (ii) native account abstractions (such as EIP-7560) transactions. Earlier today, the head of the Ethereum team (Team Lead Péter Szilágyi has expressed concerns on social media about the direction of Ethereum’s development, regarding the Ethereum PeerDAS proposal, which proposes to increase the Ethereum blob size to 32MB. Szilágyi believes that the PeerDAS upgrade will hinder home stakers (usually those with simpler hashrate setups) from participating in the Ethereum network, which goes against the spirit of decentralization. Szilágyi wrote on X: Ethereum researchers are ‘murdering’ home stakers in front of everyone. This is not what I expected when I joined Ethereum. Now I’m happy to prove that this is not the case, but I feel that Ethereum is losing its thread. The research team seems to have fully accepted the idea of centralizing everything as long as it can be verified. It’s a joke: decentralized verification but centralized control.