Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has acknowledged that the Ethereum upgrade to Ethereum 2.0 will take longer than expected because they underestimated the time it would take to implement PoS and Sharding on the network.
During a recent interview conducted via a Espaitec's to the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin He stated that the implementation of the changes to the Ethereum network will take longer than expected, and noted that if he were to start developing this upgrade again he would have a very different way of building it.
In past reports, the Bit2Me News team informed the community that the update of Ethereum 2.0 had technical problems that prevented its development in the established time. On several occasions, Buterin hinted at the possibility that this update would not be completed and available by the date initially set, although this was a possibility not confirmed by Buterin.
Now, in the recent podcast the Ethereum co-founder acknowledged that the Ethereum 2.0 development team did not do things in the best way possible, so the network upgrade to Ethereum 2.0 is becoming more difficult and delayed. Although the expectations about this upgrade have the community very excited about future changes, its constant delay also leaves many others with low spirits. Ethereum 0 phase 2.0 was expected to be available by the end of this month, now the test network, the Beacon Chain may not be available until 2021.
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Proof of Stake and Sharding for Ethereum 2.0
During the interview, Buterin noted that the most significant changes within Ethereum 2.0 are the Proof of Stake protocol (Proof of Stake – PoS) And the Sharding, a chain fragmentation technique that allows for easier handling of data and information, improving network scalability.
For the network's co-founder, no one had any idea how long it would actually take to implement all the changes needed to migrate the network to the PoS protocol. At this point, it is important to note that the proposal and development of Ethereum 2.0 began in 2018 and to date, not even the first phase has been completed.
Buterin noted that if all these technical aspects had been known from the beginning, the design of the roadmap for Ethereum 2.0 would have been different, in this way the effort and work of the developers would have focused on addressing a multitude of issues that are now delaying the launch of the update.
“If we had imagined that this would take years, we probably would have designed the roadmap in a completely different way, and at that point we would have thought about the work of the different teams in a different way, and a lot of decisions would be made in that regard in a very different way than they are now; so I think we definitely wasted our time and there is a lot of regret in that regard.”
Changes considered by Buterin
The Ethereum co-founder, in addition to pointing to PoS and Sharding as the most important and weighty developments for Ethereum 2.0, also highlighted the inadequate way in which the cost of Natural gas on the net. In Buterin's words:
"We really didn't do a good job of establishing this from the beginning."
Referring to the recent revision of the Gas limit through votes by the network developers, which should not have been set from the beginning as the team actually did.
At the time, the Ethereum 2.0 development team announced that the update would be available in January of this year, but when that date arrived, it was postponed because the implementation of the changes still presented errors and technical failures. Later, during a virtual interview, Buterin pointed out that phase 0, the Beacon Chain test network, would be launched by the end of July, but due to the constant problems that the network still faces on the road to scalability, it seems that it will not be available by this date either.
It should not be forgotten that the time required for the technical work carried out by Ethereum developers in their tireless efforts to fix all the bugs present cannot be planned precisely. This work consists of testing, fixing bugs, developing viable solutions and many other things that can take longer than imagined. So far there is no definite date for the official launch of Ethereum 2.0.
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