Ask HN: What is the Ethereum VM's total computing power?

4 pointsmonological4y ago4 comments

So according to https://ethernodes.org/ there are currently around 5154 synced nodes running EVM code. Based on this, how would you estimate the EVM's total computing power.

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PaulHoule4y ago· 3 in thread

All the nodes are processing the same thing so the processing power is equal to one node.

This is why blockchain technology took so long to be invented. If you were going to present a paper at a computer science conference where you use 5000 nodes to do the work of 1 node you never would have had the paper accepted.

monologicalOP4y ago

You are correct. However, they are working on sharding at the moment, which will allow for different contracts to run at the same time.

high_byte4y ago

so multiply by amount of shards?

verdverm4y ago

it can get more complicated with the l2 scaling solutions like rollups

depends on how you want to count the beans

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