A lot of attention is paid to the decentralization of the Bitcoin network.
Bitcoin miners should set up shop in a number of different jurisdictions in order to prevent any kind of regulatory capture of the network, so the thinking goes. Some members of the crypto community even saw China’s 2021 crypto ban as a positive because it forced mining operations — up until then clustered in the Middle Kingdom — to spread out to various other continents.
That discourse isn’t as prevalent when it comes to Proof-of-Stake networks like Ethereum and Solana, but staking firm SenseiNode aims to make such blockchains as resilient as possible by spinning up validator infrastructure in Latin America.
“When we started, 99% of nodes were located in Europe, the US and some in Asia,” SenseiNode CEO Pablo Larguia told CoinDesk in an interview. “We were the first to bring geographic and jurisdictional decentralization to Latin America.”
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