otterscan VS pm

I am planning to run about 4-5 validator instances at once with these being full archive nodes (since the same storage is used, and I think that a number of SSD's is a good investment if I have full introspective on transactions), at the same time host a Otterscan instance, and also possibly, but unrelated (although mentioning to give you the full spec) a personal HashiCorp Vault instance.

Otterscan

Explorer - I discovered Otterscan, an open source explorer that has similar UX to Etherscan

Things like otterscan that are a locally run instance of an etherscan like site are a step in the right direction, but there is still a lot to do in this regard for sure.

https://github.com/wmitsuda/otterscan

Have you looked at otterscan yet? https://github.com/wmitsuda/otterscan

Here: https://github.com/flashbots/pm

In theory you can do this now by exploiting front-running bots, see https://github.com/flashbots/pm/issues/24

Front run + back run is sandwich. Front running has also been called miner extractable value. This is now called maximal extractable value.

You may want to look a little further, or not.

https://github.com/flashbots/pm

'... mitigating the negative externalities of Maximal Extractable Value ...'

2: sponsored transactions. use flashbots to send transactions directly to miners using a third party address as payment.

I know someone who runs a MEV-Bot, i.e. scanning the mempool for opportunities and bribing miners to include his arbitrage-tx into the chain via FlashBots.

> “Less trust, more truth.”

What a neat platitude that means absolutely nothing. As a society, over, oh I don't know, like 5000 years, we figured out the the best way to enforce truth is via some sort of centralized institution: the court of law.

> They could, right. They sort of do—there’s the star thing that you can only do once per day. But guess what? They're a profit-motivated company. So if you pay Tinder enough, you can just send as many stars as you want.

Wait, crypto miners aren't profit-motivated? Maybe we should introduce Mr. Wood to flashbots[1] -- a "sub-network" of Ethereum miners (a fork of geth) who's entire purpose for existing is front-running. Truth as long as you can pay for it -- got it. Web3 is end-stage capitalism and we've been down this road in the early 1900s. Yawn.

[1] https://github.com/flashbots/pm