Blockchain-Technology-Lab / consensus-decentralization

Tool that analyzes blockchain decentralization on the consensus layer by looking at the block production distributions of various blockchain systems.
https://blockchain-technology-lab.github.io/consensus-decentralization
MIT License
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For relevant metrics, take into account the Cloud Providers and other entities #118

Closed MokhFn closed 1 year ago

MokhFn commented 1 year ago

Cloud providers, Synthetic platforms (Like Lido & Co), hardware providers (ASIC, NVIDIA, etc ...) do centralize the block production don't they ? If so, i think it's relevant to take these into account when computing the different metrics, like Nakamoto. But this is beyond technical, more like a research that spills into the tool later on.

dimkarakostas commented 1 year ago

Yes, this would be an analysis for another layer, e.g. network or hardware. This has been discussed on the research side here, so we'll keep this repository focused on consensus and release other tools for other layer analyses.

MokhFn commented 1 year ago

Understood, thanks for clarifying.