🚨 BREAKING: Ethereum’s “Decentralization Dream” Might Be DEAD — 12-GPU Monster Threatens the Network! 🚨

Ethereum’s latest upgrade plan was supposed to make it easier for home validators — everyday people running nodes on their own computers — to secure the network. Instead, it may be creating a new centralization disaster.

🔹 Here’s the twist: Ethereum wants validators to stop replaying every transaction and instead verify compact cryptographic proofs — a move meant to slash hardware needs and bring validation back to regular users. Sounds great, right?

👉 But the reality? To generate those proofs currently requires about 12 powerful GPUs — the kind only serious GPU farms or big data centers can afford as per news on cryptostate.com

💥 That means instead of decentralizing validation, Ethereum may end up with only a handful of elite prove operators controlling proof generation, while everyone else just verifies the results.

This flips the decentralization script entirely:

🔥 Before: Anyone could be a validator with modest hardware.

🔥 After: You might need a mini-server GPU rig to be relevant in block validation.

And while verification remains light, the heavy lifting – proof generation – gets concentrated. That’s a new threat to decentralization many didn’t see coming.

📉 In simple terms: Ethereum might be swapping one form of power concentration (expensive nodes) for another (expensive provers). The network’s “everyone can validate at home ” dream could still be out of reach.