What is the problem now with scalability of Ethereum network?

[wonabru]

Hi,
maybe this link would be interested for someone?

https://medium.com/@krzysztofurbanowicz/what-is-the-problem-now-with-scalability-of-ethereum-network-and-how-to-cope-with-it-41168f153775

Here it is described problem with scalability of network and why we need the hardforks in Ethereum? This is of course my understanding of problem.

Do you think the metropolis hardforks will solve the issue?

All the best.

[wonabru]

Continuation of the problem with scalability of blockchain:

https://medium.com/@krzysztofurbanowicz/what-happen-to-blockchain-in-the-case-of-decreased-security-constraints-bf37e7a2fcab

[NoiseBoy]

The Metropolis hard forks won't "solve" the issue. They will, however, improve the situation. Most scaling improvements are incremental, the hope being that the blockchain can stay one step ahead of demand. As it is, gas/block is routinely maxing out. As DApps come online, that will increasingly be a problem without numerous additional scaling solutions. Those solutions are all being worked on, but whether they can be implemented in time is another matter.

[popolite11]

Vitalik Buterin always says in video that they doing everything possible to resolve problem with scalability.
So developers team is very professional and we need just to wait.

[wonabru]

Vitalik Buterin always says in video that they doing everything possible to resolve problem with scalability.
So developers team is very professional and we need just to wait.

Regarding large data in full sync to be downloaded, which is also related to scalability somehow, is that introducing ZK-SNARKS (Zcash way of cryptography) is also some solution that will be implemented in light Ethereum Wallet client. ZK-SNarks will be introduced in forthcoming fork on 17-th October. As I understand that Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (ZK-Snarks is just one of implementation) gives the possibility to download up to eg. 700 MB data and it will be enough to verify whole blockchain, which is now above 300 GB