Péter Szilágyi, a software engineer, contends that the widespread adoption of Geth, an Ethereum client he helped develop, is not why the dominant smart contract platform is “slow.” Szilágyi responded to a thread on social media platform X discussing Solana’s high throughput, stating, “Geth does not control all factors affecting processing speed.”
Geth Is The Most Popular Ethereum Client
Geth is the most popular client in Ethereum, controlling over 55% of the total share of all clients in operation, including Nethermind and Erigon. Besides enabling users to interact with the network, it can be used to deploy full nodes.
Every synchronized full node in operation has to download and store a complete copy of Ethereum, meaning they can verify transactions and blocks independently, contributing to the network’s decentralization. With a higher degree of decentralization, there is higher reliability.
One analyst had argued that Ethereum is slower because of the dominance of Geth. In the analyst view, the Ethereum throughput can be boosted only if full nodes are distributed across the popular client providers or if any more efficient and fast client anchors most.
Szilágyi shot back, saying processing speed has been impacted because “Ethereum’s state is growing fast.”
Author: Dalmas Ngetich
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