Ethereum
Vitalik Buterin Denies Ethereum Centralization Claims, Here’s Everything
Vitalik Buterin has spoken out to address concerns about the project’s commitment to decentralization. The controversy began when Péter Szilágyi, a prominent figure on the development team, publicly expressed concerns about the direction of Ethereum’s research and development efforts.
Vitalik Buterin refutes Peter’s claim
Vitalik Buterin has strongly rejected claims that the research team embraces centralization. His statement comes after Ethereum team lead Péter Szilágyi raised concerns about the direction of their development. Buterin
who recently participated in a Foundation research workshop, noted that much discussion focused on minimizing centralization.
Vitalik highlighted several areas of focus from the workshop, including analyzing multiple proponents to potentially eliminate the role of builder, maximizing the power of inclusion lists, and ideas on selecting forks based on transaction inclusiveness. He also mentioned efforts to accelerate the deployment of the Orbit mechanism, which could significantly reduce the minimum deposit size for staking.
The controversy erupted when Szilágyi expressed concerns about a proposed PeerDAS upgrade, which would increase the size of the Ethereum blob to 32 MB. He argued that this change could prevent home stakers from participating in the network, potentially undermining decentralization. Szilágyi’s comments on social media suggested that the researchers were “murdering” home stakers and that the research team had accepted the idea of centralizing everything as long as it could be verified.
Buterin’s response is intended to reassure the community that decentralization remains at the heart of the project’s development efforts. This exchange highlights the ongoing debates within the ETH ecosystem about the balance between technological advances and the fundamental principle of decentralization.
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Ethereum’s Decentralization Compared to Other Networks
In a broader context, Vitalik Buterin has already provided a detailed analysis of Ethereum’s decentralization compared to Bitcoin and other networks. Speaking at ETHCC in Brussels, he emphasized that ETH is in a better position than Bitcoin in terms of robustness and decentralization.
He noted that while two mining pools account for 50% of Bitcoin’s computing power and four account for 75%, much of ETH’s network is mined by unidentified individuals or independent stakers. This comparison shows ETH’s continued commitment to maintaining a decentralized network structure as it continues to evolve.
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