A Primer on #ethereum #blockchain Light Clients
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A large number of projects working on Blockchain-based, peer-to-peer protocols make grandiose claims about performance and throughput. With so much innovation happening in the R&D stages of these projects, many often don’t account for the real challenges of adoption encountered once these protocols are live.Network TopologiesIt is easy to assume most people running a network are between some confidence interval of latency and computational capacity, but easy to forget the barrier to entry most users have to interact with nodes on the blockchain. Unfortunately, running a full node is prohibitively expensive and slow for most, so a large portion of users rely on “light” nodes that piggyback off the security of full nodes without the extensive resource requirements needed.Ethereum’s (...)
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