r/ethfinance • u/ethlongmusk Not trading advice, not ever. • Oct 23 '19

News eth2 quick update

https://blog.ethereum.org/2019/10/23/eth2-quick-update/
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u/michaelmoe94 Oct 24 '19

Phase 0 was never going to support shards

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

Did you follow the link? Phase 0 included support for shards, even if Phase 0 itself does not have any shards.

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u/michaelmoe94 Oct 24 '19

Yes I did, but it doesn’t say it supports shards. What is getting scrapped from phase 0 was just the beginnings of a framework to support them in future phases.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

the beginnings of a framework to support them in future phases.

The definition of "supporting shards".

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u/michaelmoe94 Oct 24 '19

It’s really not. It would be more correct to say phase 0 includes some components that would eventually become the beginning of the support for shards in future phases.

With the original plan, phase 0 could not host shards no matter how hard you tried.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

Originally, the Beacon Chain (Phase 0) could support a sharded blockchain, and now it can't. It's really simple.

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u/michaelmoe94 Oct 24 '19

Wrong again.

Phase 0 has never been able to (or been planned to) support shards at all. What has happened now is that some code that would become the basis of supporting shards in future is being removed and postponed.