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Vitalik's been talking about a sharding system around the corner for years now. The team working on it seems to be more interested in the theory than the practi

by woah 9y ago

Vitalik's been talking about a sharding system around the corner for years now. The team working on it seems to be more interested in the theory than the practice of sharding. Additionally, any sharding design will probably have to break some existing assumptions and contracts, making it a really hard fork. I wouldn't be surprised if something else comes along offering a somewhat ethereum-compatible system with sharding for those who are working on real applications and need it.

oillio 9y ago
Agreed. Both PoS and Sharding are difficult problems that are still very experimental. The fact that they need to support backwards compatibility just compounds the difficulty. Then add the difficulty of deploying these new concepts on a system worth tens of billions of dollars... I do not envy them.
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chejazi 9y ago
> something else comes along offering a somewhat ethereum-compatible system Dfinity comes to mind (Solidity contracts run on Dfinity) https://dfinity.network https://dfinity.network
naasking 9y ago
> The team working on it seems to be more interested in the theory than the practice of sharding As it should be for something that will need to be unbreakable and ultra-reliable. I detect a tone of distaste for theory in your phrasing, which isn't promising.