all questions about scaling the ethereum ecosystem
Questions tagged [scalability]
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How does Ethereum deal with blockchain scalability?
The Bitcoin community are currently trying to solve the problems of blockchain scalability. Some are advocating an increase in block size, others are talking about things like Segregated Witness. Lots of arguments have ensued.
Firstly, what is the…
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What are the causes of Ethereum's scalability issues? What's different about private chains that makes them more scalable?
Is it related to the PoW consensus method? Or that every full node must execute every transaction (can this be done differently in private chains)?
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Why wouldn't changing Difficulty variable help out in scaling?
I'm writing a thesis about smart contracts and one of my appraisers asked me to explain why changing the difficulty variable on the ethereum blockchain wouldn't help scaling.
I know ethereum is abandoning PoW anyways and making mining easier would…
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How can running transactions on all nodes possibly scale?
Ethereum runs atop a peer-to-peer network. All nodes rerun all transactions for all time every time a new block is added to the blockchain. How can this possibly scale?
For anything but the most trivial compute operations this will quickly grind to…
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What are Ethereum performance dynamics?
Date Dec 16th 2017.
Based on the block stats of the few last days, block gas limit being around 8 million, block time little short of 15 sec and the block used gas / gas limit ratio approaching 95 %, the current theoretical transaction cap appears…
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is ethereum blockchain and data storage scalable (for storage, sync across all nodes) over years and years
with every passing year the length of the blockchain and the data stored within, is going to exponentially increase.
every time a new full node joins the network, the entire blockchain and DB(state/storage trie) is replicated
right now, it takes a…
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Ethereum's plans to address its scalability problems
Background. Even though PoS solves the mining scalability problem, there are other scalability issues that limits Ethereum from replacing, say VISA:
The blockchain will grow many gigabytes per day, possibly even terabytes (depending on the size of…
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