Aaron Parecki

But there's still centralization at some level. TCP? Maybe even HTTP?

I realize that certain applications require a global centralized network state, but many others do not! True decentralization should mean that I can talk to someone else without anyone else knowing that's happening.

Thanks for digging deeper! The "network" centralization is actually pretty much expected though?

I stand corrected, I finally found an explicit reference: ethereum.org/en/developers/… "The community maintains multiple open-source clients, developed by different teams using different programming languages." That's great, so at least it's only… aaronparecki.com/2022/01/09/12/

I did look around and couldn't find any mentions of those on any easily searchable docs. Where is this stuff described? I don't even see any reference to that on the main page about it ethereum.org/en/eth2/vision/

And, talking about monoculture, the thing that triggered the thread is @moxie 's post... How many implementations of Signal are there? From presentations I've seen him give, it's an extremely monolithic system, by design.

Please do your own research. It's all public, don't take my word for it. Ethereum has several node software in its 1.x version (geth, parity, erigon...) And an explicit goal of 2.0 is to have actually at least 6 iirc.

Please do your own research. It's all public, funny take my word for it. Ethereum has several "node" software in its 1.x version (geth, parity, erigon...) And an explicit goal of 2.0 is to have actually at least 6 iirc.

I have very limited connectivity right now (on a plane) but @VitalikButerin actually wrote multiple times about it on his blog.

Please do your own research before posting messages like this. It's all public. Ethereum has several "node" clients in its 1.x version (geth, parity, erigon...) And an explicit goal of 2.0 was to have actually at least 6.