Nuh on Nostr: OTS is not enough you have to force the attacker to publish the fake checkpoint, ...

OTS is not enough you have to force the attacker to publish the fake checkpoint, otherwise there is no cost for the attack and the rational thing to do is to do it just in case the honest chain is not available in the future, in which case you can scam people, for example with network partitioning.

But also none of this actually exists on Ethereum consensus. Some proof of stake chains are built on bitcoin and has these guarantees.

But then the question is why not merge mining, because the proofs of merge mining is actually easier than reading the bitcoin chain and reading checkpoints with all the signatures in them.

Even ethereum people understand that PoW makes light clients much simpler and easier to implement.

Once you are on rootstock, it becomes easier to implement PoS for things that really need it, like high throughput payments, but then the contract state saves you all the work of finding the true checkpoint, as you see in rollups.

Anyways just keep using ethereum if you like. There is nothing at stake here anyways, there is zero demand :)