August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
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Blockchain is slow
At the time of writing, the implementation of the Ethereum blockchain is slow and cannot handle high transaction throughput. There are some Ethereum upgrades scheduled to improve transaction throughput. Experiments and developments in improving transaction throughput for different blockchain implementations are still going on.
Let's compare the current situation of Ethereum with improvements planned for the future:
- As of now, Ethereum is like a single-threaded computer. It can process one transaction at a time.
- Sharding of blockchain would improve it and make it like a multithreaded computer. It would be able to process more transactions in parallel.
- The PoS consensus algorithm would help increase the reliability of the ...