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Report about the architecture and the scalability of ethereum
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Describe the Ethereum World State #8

Closed herrBez closed 6 years ago

herrBez commented 6 years ago

In my opinion, it is of fundamental importance to describe more accurately the World State and its component. This makes it clear that this system is very difficult to scale and prone to centralization because the world state is a big piece of data.

herrBez commented 6 years ago

In my opinion this image is very clear and we could use it in the report: https://i.stack.imgur.com/QpcFh.png

gfornari commented 6 years ago

I agree about deeply describe the World State. I think we can use that image after reading https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/06/26/state-tree-pruning/. Maybe we ca simplify a bit the diagram (e.g. removing the specification of what "Uncles Hash" is).

herrBez commented 6 years ago

IMHO, we can consider close this issue?