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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by Hendrikto on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:08AM (#32848744)
Making PoS scale to hundreds of thousands of nodes with commodity hardware is not simple though. Few projects managed so far, and Ethereum wasn‘t designed for it from the outset, so it‘s even more difficult.
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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by valzam on Thursday September 15, 2022 @07:54AM (#32850371)
Of course they aren't really scaling to hundreds of thousands of nodes. At any given time only 120 nodes are involved in consensus.
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Re:The Ethereum merge is done by preseinger on Thursday September 15, 2022 @05:52AM (#32849445)
But of course no system can scale to O(100k) nodes and retain reasonable availability and consistency properties.
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