Thanks to Kev for extensive discussion, as well as George, Marius and Thomas for feedback *** One of the key recent conversations in the Ethereum community revolves around a fundamental challenge: how do we scale the network without sacrificing the core principles of decentralization and permissionless verification? This has led to a rethinking of the validator's role, potentially splitting the duties of today's staking nodes into more specialized tasks like attesting, including, bu...