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> They have the best balance of decentralization, scalability, and security.

Eth is highly centralized

This entire article is about the problems with Eth's scalability and how everyone else is better

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Ethereum is slightly less decentralized than Bitcoin when it comes to node count, but that’s about it. Ethereum and Bitcoin are the only chains with high number of nodes.

Ethereum has 10 different, independent teams working on their own clients, far more than Bitcoin, so we could say that the development is way more decentralized.

Node count is not a good measurement of decentralization.

> Ethereum and Bitcoin are the only chains with high number of nodes.

Am I looking at the correct source here? [1] It says 2997. This is lower than the total number of Cardano staking (validating) pools, which is currently 3135 [2].

[1] https://ethernodes.org/countries

[2] https://adapools.org

Ethernodes.org crawler isn’t capturing all the nodes, but supposedly it’s either getting updated or a new one is coming out that should see all of them.

Seems like it’s about 6000 according to geth dev:

https://mobile.twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/14605772098...

There’s also about 4600 eth2 nodes:

https://www.nodewatch.io/

I don't believe there are that many nodes. Those may not be full validating/archival nodes.

Contrary to the misinformation spread by a certain community, “full nodes” in Ethereum are fully validating.

https://mobile.twitter.com/TuurDemeester/status/146437138499...

Would it be a good idea to build a node (or fork) that lets only nonwhales (as of 20xx) vote?

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