Buterin is contrary to that Ethereum network is reaching capacity limit

Vitalik Buterin contradicts the assertion that Ethereum network is reaching capacity limit

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Marcus Misiak –
23.09.2018

Probably the most common in the last months of the debate, when it comes to Ethereum, how and when Ethereum improve its scalability and transactions (per second) can handle. Currently, Afri Schoedon, a developer of the Parity client for Ethereum has reignited this discussion again, as he recently called for “the provision of dApps for Ethereum”, because the Ethereum network had reached its capacity for transactions. Vitalik Buterin contradicted this claim, however, verhemmt.

At the latest since then, the so far most popular Ethereum dApp, crypto kitties in the past year, the Ethereum-a Blockchain on their limits, the Transaction time is extremely increased, and the cost for a transaction is about to explode, read the discussion on the current scalability of the network, getting louder and louder. Afri Schoedon, a developer of the Parity client for Ethereum, has now set Recently, other developers of Ethereum dApps prompted “the provision of dApps for Ethereum”. He called his developer colleagues on other block chains, how to switch to Ethereum Classic (ETC), or POA of the Network (POA), a Sidechain in the Ethereum network.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder and leader of the Ethereum block Chain, disagreed with the conservation of Eden, however, vehemmt and pointed out that “most of the Dapps have a lot of space in order to optimize the Gas itself,” and in addition, each developer with a “Layer 2 solutions” should be concerned.

Scho Eden argued that one of the fastest ways ETC as well as the POA already support infrastructures such as MyCrypto and MetaMask and a change of thereby simplify. Vitalik is of the opinion that transactions on the Ethereum at the moment, i.e. the current number of dApps and users, in fact, very scalable, to use even without the Second-Layer solutions (e.g., State Channels, Plasma).

For this purpose, he proposes ZK-SNARKs for the mass validation of transactions. The highly technical proposal to this end, Buterin has also ethresear.ch published. In this respect, he also sees the dApp-developers themselves have a responsibility in the framework of its possibilities of optimisation.

The Gas acts on the Ethereum network as an execution fee. The price of this fee is expressed in Gwei, which is about 0,000000001 ETH. The price is set by the miners can refuse to process transactions that are less than a certain price of gas. The recommended price of gas is currently at about 4.3, how gasstation.info shows.

A brief look at ether scan also shows that Ethereum currently has around 57,000 open transactions in the Mempool, and over the past week remained relatively constant over 60,000 open transactions was, although there is currently no “Killer”-dApp, which allows a widespread use of Ethereum in everyday life.

A little bit of truth …

On the Deconomy conference in Seoul, South Korea, Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin explains itself, that Ethereum is not currently in use “to”, since it can currently only handle a small number of transactions. Therefore, Buterin told the participants that everyone would like today to create a “decentralised” or similar application, would be likely to be frustrated.

While Uber needs to process per second 12 trips, it would Ethereum can according to his estimates, only 15 transactions per second. Buterin noted self-critically:

If you want to build a decentralized Uber and Lyft on a unskalierbaren Ethereum, you’re screwed.

However, Buterins lecture also focused on the possible scaling solutions, including Sharding, in order to solve the scaling problem. As we reported, Plasma will already be released in 2019, before 2020 Sharding. The CEO and Founder of OmiseGo, Jun Hasegawa, whose project is relevant to Plasma, recently stated that he expects for the next 2 years, a very positive development.

According to Hasegawa 2018 was a very successful year for Ethereum, as a very great progress in the development of Sharding, Casper, Plasma and Interchain protocols were achieved, so that the Ethereum network may soon process 1 Million transactions per second. Due to this, he was expecting that Ethereum in the next two years, 2019, and 2020 will see a real business acceptance, larger decentralized applications (dApps), massive progress in scaling as well as takeovers by governments around the world.