Infura

Hi,

During 2018 I was creating some POC’s on the ethereum network. I stumbled upon Infura (https://infura.io/) that made the whole thing easier. However, this centralized middleware is kind of against the decentralization philosophy – as pointed out by several profiles in the cryptocurrency environment.

If we rely on a centralized layer to connect to the Ethereum blockchain, we’re running the risk of this centralized layer being taken down, hurting the ecosystem. Vitalik has said that Ethereum itself is not reliant on Infura or any other centralized API providers, I get that. But if X applications are using infura, X applications would experience downtime during an outage. This could seriously hurt the ecosystem, as a huge unique selling point of the blockchain is it’s 100% uptime.

Could someone tell me where I’m wrong, or even better, point me towards some article/podcast/video that explains how we could decentralize this layer?