{"id":429593,"date":"2020-07-06T08:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=429593"},"modified":"2020-07-06T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:27:43","slug":"cardano-gains-momentum-as-ethereum-2-0-release-continues-to-stall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/cardano-gains-momentum-as-ethereum-2-0-release-continues-to-stall\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardano Gains Momentum as Ethereum 2.0 Release Continues to Stall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, recently appeared on the Hashing It Out<\/a> podcast to discuss the latest developments with Ethereum.<\/p>\n

Hosts Corey Petty<\/a> and Dean Eigenmann<\/a> quizzed Buterin on his regrets over Ethereum’s initial launch, and how ETH2.0<\/a> will gear towards addressing those concerns.<\/p>\n

With that, Buterin acknowledged that, when designing Ethereum, many mistakes were made. With the benefit of hindsight, he admits that the Ethereum architecture isn’t as efficient as it could be.<\/p>\n

One example he gave related to the use of hexary trees, instead of binary trees, to store contract data.<\/p>\n

Guillaume Ballet<\/a> noted that hexary trees hamper scalability, as this method requires constant recalculation of the hash root.
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As well as that, during his explanation, Buterin also expressed regret on how the gas system was setup.<\/p>\n

“we really didn’t do a good job in setting those in the beginning.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It recently emerged that a $130 Ethereum transaction incurred gas fees of $2.6 million<\/a>. Some theorize that this was an intention game of the gas system as a result of money laundering. But whether or not this is true, it still highlights flaws within Ethereum’s gas system.<\/p>\n

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overall the ethereum community is wayyyyy too overconfident about people paying high gas fees if reasonable alternatives exist.<\/p>\n

watching ethereum overtake bitcoin has been fun.<\/p>\n

watching the ethereum community fall for the same overconfidence trap that befell bticoin is scary.<\/p>\n

— scottlewis.canto (@scott_lew_is) June 30, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n