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Does this scale though? It all sounds nice, but with the massive blockchain overhead is this system going to be able to serve the community at all? I heard th
by narrator 9y ago
Does this scale though? It all sounds nice, but with the massive blockchain overhead is this system going to be able to serve the community at all? I heard that each node has to execute the block chain in Ethereum. Sounds like a lot of duplicated computing just to do something that would be much more efficient if centralized.
- nemo44x 9y agoRight now probably not. However, Etherum has sharding, as well as other features to help scale, as a feature for the future. It isn't like we are stuck with the current implementations.
- rjeli 9y agoIs sharding a realistic goal for Ethereum? How would it be implemented?
- nemo44x 9y agoI am not an Ethereum developer or expert on the codebase or technical capabilities. In fact I've read very little on how this sharding would be implemented. I have a lot of experience in distributed systems so I understand the benefits but I don't know how this would work for blockchain technologies. However, it is a known issue and there are proposals and I'm sure more to come. Sharding is a leading proposal and it has been described. However, I cannot personally comment on the viability. But I'm an optimist and believe it will be solved. Maybe not with Ethereum but eventually with something. The one fallacy to be aware of is a lot of people it appears think that blockchain technologies are static. As if they can't evolve and change and iterate. They can and if history is any indicator they will so long as there is interest and outlandish people see potential.