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RE: Is Custom JSON the Future of Steem? | The one thing that has been going up on Steem in the bear market!
Right. If you are using RPC to a node now, you are trusting the node to be providing authentic data.
A plugin to retrieve just the data you need inherits the same same trust requirement but with a lot less overhead. This is even true if using your own node on your own hardware, since retrieving all the data over RPC (only to discard 90%+ of it) is itself pretty expensive.