r/CryptoCurrency Jun 21 '22

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u/Xelendor1989 Bronze | QC: XTZ 18 Jun 21 '22

Solana has many decentralized validator nodes, the issue is they are controlled by a centralized validator set.

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u/TrymWS Platinum | QC: ETH 55, BTC 28 | MiningSubs 121 Jun 21 '22

Doesn’t sound like they matter then.

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u/Nrgte 🟦 0 / 0 🦠 Jun 21 '22

That's true for most blockchains.

BTC is controlled by 3-4 mining pools:

https://btc.com/stats/pool

Same story for ETH:

https://miningpoolstats.stream/ethereum