2019-9-24 20:15 |
Blockchains like Ethereum‘s are often pitched as self-sovereign money networks that operate independently of states, financial institutions, and corporations — but recent research shows this might not be reality.
As it turns out, it’s really centralized cloud services hosting most of the Ethereum network, with 61. 6 percent of Ethereum nodes running in the cloud. Uncomfortably, Amazon Web Services (AWS) indirectly operates nearly 25 percent of all Ethereum nodes, reports cloud services provider Chainstack through data shared with Hard Fork. Mapping Ethereum’s problem with the cloud Analyzing the Ethereum network in this way is possible due to the “Ethereum discovery protocol,” the mechanism nodes use to find…
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