Cloudflare offers now a Ethereum Gateway
The Gateway should just help here. It allows you to make payments in the Ethereum network and create Smart Contracts without having your own node. Instead, the gateway places the contracts independently on the network. Miners are given the opportunity to commit the smart contracts to the blockchain. The implementation of own contracts is thus enormously simplified.
Of course, a gateway is a bundled entry point into the network. Its use thus seems to contradict the basic idea of the decentralization of Ethereum. Cloudflare itself points out in this context that it is not the only provider of gateways. The presence of several suppliers would therefore ensure a sufficient degree of decentralization. The blog post mentions Infura here. The operated by ConsenSys gateway provider, however, has itself several times in the criticism. Again, the charge of excessive centralization was raised. Ultimately, these debates show that simplified participation in the network is currently only at the price of increased centralization. To counteract this development, more cost-efficient technical solutions would have to be developed.
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