OpenEtehreum, ex Parity downgrading to 2019 version

[Febo]

OpenEthereum 'stable' release had a critical bug for months. Today they decided to downgrade to a release from 2019.
Downgrading requires re-syncing from scratch. We all know how big problems Ethereum full nodes have with syncing the block chain. For some will take months. For some is maybe game over.

https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/issues/11854#issuecomment-679001174



More about the bug: https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum/issues/11758

[Febo]

https://www.ethernodes.org/

Ethereum Mainnet Statistics
Clients
Total 8470 (100%)
geth 6672 (78.77%)
parity-ethereum 924 (10.91%)
openethereum 657 (7.76%

It seems only 10.91%+7.76% = 18.76% clients are affected.  So not that huge of a deal. But I guess because of this bug that lasted so long number of nodes using parity/openethereum declined. My guess.

[Ucy]

What does it take to get things synced fast? Powerful/dedicated hardware? Fast internet? Restructuring things?
Etc...

I think I'd rather allow/develop a system of Blockchains of different sizes for the crypto network to enable any kind of users run full nodes they can easily/quickly sync. The heavier jobs would be left for people with higher hardware and fast internet to handle. And I think appropriate incentives would be necessary to encourage anyone to do the jobs of running/syncing the full nodes in order to keep the network super secure. Millions should be running full nodes fairly easily.

[Febo]

What does it take to get things synced fast? Powerful/dedicated hardware? Fast internet? Restructuring things?

Yes both. Of course for decentralisation is more important fast internet since everyone can buy Powerful hardware when with internet you are depending on country/region you live in.