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@pcaversaccio
The following analogy, though not flawless, serves well to underscore the critical importance of client diversity: Consider the CrowdStrike incident from last week, which brought down millions of mission-critical digital infrastructures (due to reading in a bad data file and attempting to access invalid memory). Fortunately, this update was not rolled out to Linux! Now, envision Ethereum operating on a single client (execution & consensus) written in Go (=Geth). If Go were to push a faulty upgrade and Geth adopted it, this could - hypothetically speaking (it's a simple example) - lead to a potential denial-of-service in the p2p discovery process. The consequences would be catastrophic. This scenario illustrates why client diversity is so critical: it mitigates risks not only from bugs within a codebase but also from vulnerabilities inherent in programming languages, thereby protecting the entire network. Please do me a favour and switch your Geth client to a minority client.
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that's why i'm (trying to) run my node with nethermind!
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