Blockchain advisory and product development firm Akomba Labs conducted a test on the Ethereum network that shows it tin make block propagation at to the lowest degree twice as fast.

Coindesk reported on November. 27 that Akomba Labs — in collaboration with the scalability-focused blockchain startup BloXroute — ran a two-week exam measuring the results of running BloXroute'due south Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN) on the Ethereum network.

Test findings showed that the average block propagation performance significantly improved, dropping from 360 milliseconds without the BDN to 172 milliseconds with it.

The test results further indicate that BDN could potentially present itself every bit a solution to Ethereum's scalability debacle. BloXroute CEO Uri Klarman commented:

"Ethereum feels the burn of the scalability bottleneck more than than whatever other blockchain out there [...] Information technology'southward losing momentum, information technology'due south losing marketplace share. They feel the problem. most others don't."

Klarman added that BDN is already running in some of the mining pools and that it will be gradually introduced to more larger pools. Klarman said on Twitter that it is "not just virtually making the network faster, it is about making it bigger, without making information technology slower."

BitTorrent creator calls out Ethereum's co-founder Vitalik Buterin

Bran Cohen, best known as the creator of BitTorrent, recently explained why he considers many of Vitalik'southward opinions addressing the and so-chosen "hard problems in cryptocurrency," to be "wrong-headed."

Cohen get-go took a few stabs at Vitalik'south views on sharding and blockchain scalability, simply before he fabricated it abundantly clear that he is no fan of Vitalik's ASIC-resistant proof of piece of work (PoW) algorithm, calling it a "piping dream and a bad idea."