Ethereum Developer Addresses Node Centralization Issues Ahead of Merger

The majority of the 4,653 active Ethereum nodes are managed by centralized web providers like Amazon Web Services, which experts say could become a central point of failure.

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Ethereum is weeks away from officially moving to proof-of-stake (PoS) mining consensus from its current proof-of-work (PoW) consensus. The transition, officially dubbed the merger, is scheduled for September 15, but in the run-up to the major update, the centralization of Ethereum nodes has become a hot topic.

As Cointelegraph reported last week, the majority of the 4,653 active Ethereum nodes are managed by centralized web providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), which experts believe could expose the Ethereum blockchain to the point of central failure after merger.

Ethereum node distribution of web service providers . Source: Ethernodes

The same concern was voiced by Maggie Love, co-founder of Web3 infrastructure company W3BCloud. She claimed that the centralization of nodes in the Ethereum PoS network could become a big concern that no one seems to be focusing on.

Ethereum lead developer Péter Szilágyi addressed growing centralization issues and said he aims to prune the database since Devcon IV. Pruning consists of reducing the size of the blockchain to a point where developers can create a reliable ledger with a certain size.

We've been saying this since Devcon IV. Either the state is pruned or you'll end up with no one running the home nodes.

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