[ricericerice]

there's 1,000,000 validators (defined as a public key), but you can run multiple validators per machine. Most estimates that crawl the p2p network to index nodes comes out at like ~20,000 machines

doesn't invalidate your point but it at least shaves off a few orders of magnitude

and a single PG node is not a fair comparison, we're talking 100% uptime global networks. Visa does about 70,000 transactions per second - how many servers do you think they run across their infra?

[wredcoll]

> Visa does about 70,000 transactions per second - how many servers do you think they run across their infra?

So uh, how do we scale etherum's 150tps to that?

[DennisP]

ZK rollups which greatly compress data on chain without losing security guarantees, combined with temporary storage using data sampling so each node only has to store a small portion of it. The zk rollups are live and support significantly more than 150tps today, and the data sampling goes live in November. There's a lot more work to be done but that puts the major pieces in place.