Guiness is not an "authentic" record-keeping organization, in that they largely don't attempt to maintain accurate records of "the most X" and "the fastest Y". Rather, their business model is primarily based on marketing and publicity stunts: a company makes a ridiculously large pizza or whatever, and pays a very large amount of money to have Guinness "verify" their record for biggest pizza. A Guinness world record is just Guinness's record; it's commonly different from the true world record.
Guinness claims that the IBM System/360 (1964) was the first computer to use integrated circuits. I've tried unsuccessfully to convince them that they are wrong. The Texas Instruments Semiconductor Network Computer (1961) was the first, a prototype system, followed by multiple aerospace computers earlier than the System/360. Moreover, the System/360 used hybrid SLT modules which weren't even integrated circuits, so it's not even a contender. Maybe you could argue that the System/360 was the first commercial, production computer to use high-density modular electronics, but that's a lot of extra adjectives.
Not to mention, being used as a whitewashing tool by autocrats across the Middle East and Central Asia (for no reason other than a dick measuring contest).
L1 (Ethereum Mainnet) fees spike that high, L1 is the highest secure layer of the network and inherently higher price during peak usage. Pick a flavour of L2 of your choice and enjoy cents per transaction. See prices here https://l2fees.info/
L2s are definitely the way. They publish all state, state updates, and proofs of the validity of the state updates on L1. That means they publish all consensus critical data on L1, allowing them to be as secure as any L1 smart contract.
They're not yet production ready though. All use centralized coordinators and failsafes, as a precaution against catastrophic flaws in the smart contracts they have deployed on L1, that could lead billions of dollars worth of digital assets being stolen/lost.
Stop spreading FUD about Ethereum (SOL and EOS, valid).
Ethereum shares the same philosophy of ensuring that clients are capable of being used on lower end hardware to ensure diversity of nodes.
Ethereum nodes can and are being run on Raspberry PI's + SSD drives.
You can even validate the Ethereum network on a Raspberry PI.
In Ethereum you "validate" instead of "mine" like in bitcoin, this is what keeps the network secure and validating is much more power efficient (99.995% less power use than Bitcoin for). See Proof of Stake vs Proof of Work.
My question to you is: Look at BTC. What kind of specialized, expensive, environmentally unfriendly, ASICS do you need to secure the chain?
I've been doing Google Takeout backups to Synology for a while. Curious is you or any other users have an automated way to do this instead? So an automated way to backup Google Photos to Synology.
Correct, the plan is to scale to that level but currently is not doing that. The current L1 (Ethereum Mainnet) + L2 combined TPS can be seen here https://ethtps.info/
Important to note that Ethereum embraces the idea that L2's will provide a lot of the scale and L1 will remain the base, main layer of security. So the goal isn't for L1 to scale massively, but to be able to support a healthy ecosystem of secure L2's which scale in different ways!
I suggest checking the /r/ethstaker/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/ethstaker/) community if you are interested in staking. I've been staking from genesis block and has required very little upkeep. Dive in!
