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		Hendrikto on Sept 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Ethereum merge is done 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.

valzam on Sept 15, 2022 | [–]

Of course they aren't really scaling to hundreds of thousands of nodes. At any given time only 120 nodes are involved in consensus.

preseinger on Sept 15, 2022 | [–]

But of course no system can scale to O(100k) nodes and retain reasonable availability and consistency properties.

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