Ethereum frontman believes that Starlink can in theory help Ethereum with proto-danksharding but it is not enough to scale the blockchain completely
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has taken to Twitter to comment on a new change in user status for customers in the US and Canada who are using StartLink Internet at home.
He believes 1 TB via Elon Musk’s Starlink is enough for proto-danksharding.
Vitalik on Starlink’s 1TB for Ethereum’s Scaling Solution Proposal
Buterin tweeted that the power of “1 TB of soft cap” per month for home use is enough for proto-dankhardening. However, he tweeted, “Not for the scalping endgame”.
Besides, he stated that Ethereum still needs “full danksharding with data availability sampling to make node running viable in the long term”
Proto-danksharding (also known as EIP-4844) was proposed by Vitalik in March of this year as a scaling solution for the Ethereum chain, which has often been crowded in the past few years. Proto-danksharding is a method of validating data that focuses on blob-carrying transactions that the EVM cannot handle.
It is was offered as a replacement for danksharding and rather than making more space for transfers on Ethereum, it splits transactions into blobs of data and provides more space for them.
However, none of the proposals have been implemented so far.
Starlink adds a 1 TB soft cap for home users
Starlink has announced a slight change in user conditions for home users of Internet services in the US and Canada.
From now on, they will be entitled to a “fair use” policy, which means users with unlimited bandwidth start a new month with “priority access”.
But should they exceed 1 TB during the month, they will be able to finish the monthly billing period with the Basic Access tariff.
Basic access is given a lower priority in use, i.e. if the network is overloaded, clients with basic access will have a slower connection than those with “primary access”.
