My thoughts on CTOR

There is no evidence that

A. Sharding requires CTOR and can work no other way

B. Sharding clients are the only way forward, that all other ways forward will fail

C. That "sharding clients" spanning many miners can even be built

D. That if they are implementable, there will be no disruption to the underlying consensus process

Sound familiar?

There is also no evidence that:

A. Lightning requires segwit and can work no other way

B. Lightning clients are the only way forward, that all other ways forward will fail

C. That decentralized routing lightning clients clients can even be built

D. That if decentralized LN clients are ever built, there will be no disruption to the underlying consensus process

Again: CTOR might very well be the best way forward, and if so I will support it wholly, but so far the arguments for it are a series of red flags.

The community should demand proof of concept. That is the proper methodology. Just like we should have insisted on PoC for decentralized LN routing BEFORE pushing through segwit. Let's see a working laboratory implementation of "sharding" so that we can make a decision based on facts not feelings.

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