These side deals are miniscule, and I truly believe its not happening or is a very rare occurance. Sounds like smoke and mirrors to push this.why can no one provide evidence and stats if this is such a big deal?
The end results will be validators shoving blocks to create fake high PFs for users since they stand to benefit exponentially in this circumstance.
A tremendous amount of reseach by some of the top people in cryptograghy and gametheory discus PF and all attack vectors in depth. Wny is no real research being down? No proper write up or anything regarding this matter? There is a reason another blockchain burned 100% fees. To avoid validator manipulation of blocks to increase their profits.
Deleting posts that do not agree with your financial incentives is very disturbing. This topic is being blown up on social media and the only people that are for this are the validators for obvious reasons, who is going to be voting no to increasing their own revenue? No one is, thats why this seems very biased and doesnt seem very truthful when no stats or evidence has been provided about these side deals people are claiming.
Technological develpments need to occur to benefit validators such as reducing node requirements to reduce infra costs. Not essentially stealing a deflation aspect people bought into solana for, every user will suffer with higher inflation, doesnt matter how much you undermine the amounts, it still remains a fact.
When a validator above states “charity” you need to look in the mirror because you are the charity with peoples delegations, honestly the networks users owe you all absolutely nothing. If 75% of validators are not profitible that is your issue not the users. Ironically this is also being pushed before firedancer which negates your stances on incentives. Everyone knows the bottleneck is hardware requirements.
Changing monetary policy is a big deal, and legal consequences for such monetary policy changes im sure will arise. Most of you validators own multiple and with such a miniscule pass rate a couple of you are cheating millions of users.
Since posts are being censored and deleted, screen shot taken to prove i did not break any forum rules and am being deleted solely because of abuse of power. The same abuse of power that will manipulate blocks and increase PF for all users. Actions speak louder than words and the severe censorship paints a clear picture how validators will abuse this system.