My First Impressions of Web3

Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by gen220 on Friday January 07, 2022 @07:45PM (#29847224)

I think this is “the point”. This is like saying you can switch away from GMail by running your own mail server. People don’t want to run their own mail server.

Will the ethereum light client run in metamask with no configuration? I’m afraid anything short of that is too heavy.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by kristofferR on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:02PM (#29847373)

Yeah, you just change the RPC URL: https://docs.metamask.io/guide/rpc-api.html

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by gen220 on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:24PM (#29847948)

I don’t think changing the RPC URL exec’s an ethereum light client.

Extending the mail server analogy, updating the MX record does not exec a mail server.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by CryptoPunk on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:30AM (#29848914)

He's saying that configuring MetaMask to work with a light client is as easy as changing the RPC URL. The light client still needs to be installed/configured separately.

Ideally, as Moxie suggested, MetaMask itself integrates a light client into its wallet, so that it becomes the default configuration.

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Re:My First Impressions of Web3 by clippablematt on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:25AM (#29850662)

The idea of light clients is they will be bundled inside of apps/websites/extensions. So yes running a light client will be easy because it’s just happening in the background of the app, replacing the api hopping we do now with direct call/response to the chain.

So for metamask they would replace the calls to infura with a light client instead. Easy. They’re probably a year away from adoption, this year will accelerate development as it’s something lots of us want.

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