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Re:Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance by optimiz3 on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:27PM (#31727728)
Until there's an Ethereum Foundation backed validator, a huge number of people are going to stay away.

The Ethereum Foundation can do things like roll back a broken DAO. A 3rd party offering a potentially broken validator cannot force a fork to fix things.

It's also super weird the foundation is not building the validation code into Geth and making it a baseline part of a reference node as PoW certainly is.

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Re:Temporary pause of Bitcoin withdrawals on Binance by bouncycastle on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @03:02AM (#31735628)
Nope. The Ethereum Foundation foundation cannot do anything either.

Think of the foundation as someone like the World Wide Web Consortium. They research and lead the protocol(s) standardisation, but it's not up to them to do the implementation, besides perhaps providing a reference implementation.

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