4 ms·

proof of stake has nothing to do with transaction throughput.

• officialchicken 5y ago
  Yes, ETH2 does come with Sharding, but nobody really knows what that is. Proof of Stake is the ETH2 selling point.
  • keymone 5y ago
    sharding is a pipe dream. literally no different to just throwing your hands up, spinning up few more parallel ethereum networks and proclaiming you've solved a scalability problem.
    • serverholic 5y ago
      They are only sharding data. The execution layer isn't going to be sharded for awhile, if ever.
      • keymone 5y ago
        let's see what they actually ship, if ever.
  • chrisco255 5y ago
    Sharding is a very simple to understand concept and it's used in database systems today. Effectively, Ethereum's long-term data will become split across 4 partitions (which function as one chain). A validator would not be required to validate data on all 4 shards, they could validate across just one. Ethereum's execution will continue to be serialized while the data layer is parallelized. This allows the chain data to grow without excessive hardware requirements.