Clients (5 of 5)

Clients (5 of 5) Ethereum's genetic material specifies how any client may be implemented on Ethereum, regardless of the underlying codebase (see "WPYP Chromosome" in Ethstory Series 1). This early "branching" strategy has yielded benefits. For example, in 2016, as developers worked to keep Go Ethereum ("geth") more resistant to DDoS-like attacks, nodes using Parity's Rust-based Ethereum client kept churning, maintaining the network. Each implementation makes the network less vulnerable. On this original, these two historic clients are shown in their early forms. Over 40,000 code items are adapted from early client versions and visualized here. Key concepts among variables are highlighted, a...View all