Unpopular opinion: staking is too difficult for common folk to do

The ethereum community likes to sugarcoat usability but it’s healthier to just admit: this is not everyone yet.

I’m very tech savvy and I just finished migrating my cloud validators to a local setup because my cloud provider (DigitalOcean) max IOPS was insufficient. Holy f***k what a mess.

Yes, there are helpful guides to get you started easy enough, but you better pray to the staking gods that there’s no hiccups because then you’re out bare naked in the wilderness.

I’m lucky I had a spare weekend to spend debugging. But if you have an unforgiving schedule, I recommend using a staking service instead.

I really hope the community takes usability seriously and bulletproof tools to simplify everything from key phrase security to staking.