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Re:Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery publ... by thinkmassive on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:47PM (#17889070)
People running light clients should also be running their own full nodes, otherwise the shortage of peers will only get worse https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/issues/15454
Re:Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery publ... by shazow on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:53PM (#17889095)
Ultimately, all full nodes will also be light clients--that is the nature of the upcoming sharding changes.

It does not make sense to have a full node for every light client. A full node is perfectly capable of safely serving hundreds or thousands of light clients.

Also there are several initiatives towards incentivizing more light clients. I am working on one: https://vipnode.org/

Re:Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery publ... by thinkmassive on Saturday September 01, 2018 @12:02AM (#17890133)
I wasn't implying a full node for every light client, of course that doesn't make sense. People using light clients in their products, like a wallet or DApp, are probably adding tens to thousands of light clients. When you add that load to the network, you should also deploy a few full nodes, and probably add them as static peers if you want the application to work well.
Re:Full Ethereum blockchain now available as a BigQuery publ... by thinkmassive on Saturday September 01, 2018 @12:03AM (#17890135)
> Also there are several initiatives towards incentivizing more light clients. I am working on one: https://vipnode.org/

This looks cool, I may have to give it a try!