blockprint VS clientdiversity-org

The blockprint tool by Michael Sproul is our best source of information. It uses machine learning to guess what client made the block proposal based on the order that transactions are packed in the block. Graffiti is a good fallback, many people include their client name in their graffiti and it's a good way to verify the blockprint guess.

Michael Sproul from the Lighthouse team really helped us to get things moving. He realized that he could identify the block proposer client by fingerprinting the order that attestations were packed into block proposals and identify the proposing client with a high degree of certainty (this is now available as blockprint). A few months later, I noticed that Invisible Symbol from the Rocket Pool #Trading discord was posting some really interesting operator data, specifically, he had data that linked many more validators to their operators than anyone else, notably, he had developed an accurate list of Coinbase's validators which had previously been hiding.

Alessandro said it'd be a few days before he can get me a data endpoint, but once that happens I'll have clientdiversity.org updated in a day or 2

Ethereum is the most decentralized transaction ledger in the world, with thousands of nodes distributed across the world, and more client diversity than any other blockchain that I'm aware of:

https://clientdiversity.org/

The move to Proof of Stake has also made solo validation accessible to parties other than large pools.

there are guides on https://clientdiversity.org/

Large number of nodes does not equal decentralization. In Ethereum, like all other networks/countries, power tends to consolidate. All the consensus power is consolidated to 1-2 entities.link Hedera is already far more decentralized.

Apparently that’s the case, yes: https://clientdiversity.org/ though the source says „data might not be 100% accurate“, but I guess it’s sure geth dominance is down.

Execution clients only run GETH. Client diversity isn’t even great per eth foundation: https://clientdiversity.org

10+ separate companies implement the protocol in 10 completely different independent code bases https://clientdiversity.org/

As I said this is the second time I did this "report" and asked for better sources the first time as well. In the end I did my best to find reliable sources, but even back then I really wasn't sure if these numbers are correct. And if you look at https://clientdiversity.org/ there are even two data sources you can choose that really differ... so +1 to the irony of our industry...