diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 4336e32f..468ed917 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -565,6 +565,8 @@ These are not ordered. I think some rows also accidently got deleted here. Check
   - look at average request time for getBlock? i'm not sure how good a proxy that will be for serving eth_call, but its a start
   - https://crates.io/crates/histogram-sampler
 - [ ] interval for http subscriptions should be based on block time. load from config is easy, but better to query. currently hard coded to 13 seconds
+- [ ] check code to keep us from going backwards. maybe that is causing outages
+- [ ] min_backup_rpcs seperate from min_synced_rpcs
 
 in another repo: event subscriber
   - [ ] watch for transfer events to our contract and submit them to /payment/$tx_hash
diff --git a/web3_proxy/src/rpcs/blockchain.rs b/web3_proxy/src/rpcs/blockchain.rs
index b90b9958..543513e6 100644
--- a/web3_proxy/src/rpcs/blockchain.rs
+++ b/web3_proxy/src/rpcs/blockchain.rs
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ impl Web3Rpcs {
                         // this is unlikely but possible
                         // TODO: better log
                         warn!(
-                            "chain rolled back t{}/{} {}{}/{}/{} con={} old={} rpc={}@{}",
+                            "chain rolled back {}/{} {}{}/{}/{} con={} old={} rpc={}@{}",
                             consensus_tier,
                             total_tiers,
                             backups_voted_str,
diff --git a/web3_proxy/src/rpcs/consensus.rs b/web3_proxy/src/rpcs/consensus.rs
index 943dd051..a6f94523 100644
--- a/web3_proxy/src/rpcs/consensus.rs
+++ b/web3_proxy/src/rpcs/consensus.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use anyhow::Context;
 use ethers::prelude::{H256, U64};
 use hashbrown::{HashMap, HashSet};
 use itertools::{Itertools, MinMaxResult};
-use log::{trace, warn};
+use log::{trace, warn, debug};
 use moka::future::Cache;
 use serde::Serialize;
 use std::cmp::Reverse;
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ use tokio::time::Instant;
 pub struct ConsensusWeb3Rpcs {
     pub(super) tier: u64,
     pub(super) head_block: Web3ProxyBlock,
-    // TODO: this should be able to serialize, but it isn't
-    #[serde(skip_serializing)]
     pub(super) best_rpcs: Vec<Arc<Web3Rpc>>,
     // TODO: functions like "compare_backup_vote()"
     // pub(super) backups_voted: Option<Web3ProxyBlock>,
@@ -323,6 +321,8 @@ impl ConsensusFinder {
                 continue;
             }
 
+            trace!("rpc_names: {:#?}", rpc_names);
+
             // consensus likely found! load the rpcs to make sure they all have active connections
             let consensus_rpcs: Vec<_> = rpc_names.into_iter().filter_map(|x| web3_rpcs.get(x)).collect();