One of my favorite Ethereum projects is https://trueblocks.io/, which provides a user-friendly and private way to access transactions and data, especially useful if you have your own node.
It's a big disappointment to me how almost no one in the eth ecosystem cares about the dependency on etherscan.io and other centralized data providers.
How many of the average eth users run a node?
I never really ran one for long it was such a hassle…
> How many of the average eth users run a node?
Not much? Running a node makes sense mainly for power users like (dapp) developers or (solo) stakers
> I never really ran one for long it was such a hassle…
cmon. There is nothing particularly complicated about running eth node. 32GB RAM and 4TB SSD is nothing special today. If you want hassle, look at Solana
Well i mean when i was trying to run a node it was a long while ago… on not the right equipment lol…
I wouldn’t even try to run a sol node… can’t say I’ve found a use case for me to use it?
Yeah, there's not much useful things on Solana now, but Ethereum is very useful, especially if you don't want to use fiat money or trusted intermediaries like centralized exchanges. If you use banks, brokers, centralized exchanges, etc., Ethereum doesn't really matter.
Oh for sure… I’ve used eth for various things over the years…
Haven’t done much with it as of lately though…
