V God: Should "tolerate" Ethereum's separate validator to review blocks

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes that separate validators who choose not to include certain transactions should be "tolerated" to prevent the Ethereum community from becoming a "morality police."

Vitalik Buterin made the comment in response to a survey by Twitter user latetot.eth. The survey discusses a hypothetical scenario where a validator reviews a transaction that is inconsistent with its beliefs.

This post, published on October 17, discusses the issue that if a solo validator in a country that is at war with another country decides not to process a block because it contains donations to a hostile military power, it should How to deal with it. Vitalik Buterin said the answers to review cases should be commensurate with the extent of the violations.

The thread garnered a lot of attention, as Vitalik explained that any other answer could turn the Ethereum community into a morality policeman.

In Ethereum Proof of Stake (PoS) , validators decide which transactions, if any, to include in their blocks. PoS is a modern consensus method that powers decentralized finance (DeFi) projects and cryptocurrencies.

Gnosis co-founder and Ethereum decentralized application developer Martin Köppelmann also responded to this thread, saying that he agrees with the argument that validators are tolerated in this situation, while commenting on how MEV-boost censorship on Ethereum after the merger Enhanced warnings.

Although the post discusses a hypothetical scenario, concerns about censorship on the ethereum network surged last week, with 51% of ethereum blocks meeting the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) standards as of October 14, MEV -Boost repeaters took market share a month after the merger.

MEV-Boost relayers are centralized entities that act as trusted intermediaries between block producers and builders. All Ethereum PoS validators can outsource their block production to other builders. Since Ethereum upgraded to PoS consensus, MEV-Boost has been used for a more representative distribution of block proposers, rather than a small group of miners under Proof-of-Work (PoW).

As Slava Demchuk, CEO and co-founder of AMLBot, noted in a recent opinion piece , the Ethereum upgrade could bring new benefits to anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) schemes in the crypto industry. Improve. He said:

“U.S. regulators are increasingly expressing concerns about the large amounts of money circulating in DeFi without any control. Since the Ethereum blockchain is the main chain for most tokens, its recent shift from PoW to PoS may used as an argument for their attempt to influence (at least in part) a decentralized market.”