BFT Consensus can not support a large scale nodes, you are wrong.
it can never be decentralized like bitcoin and Ethereum..
it's more like a centralized network.
then why you buy some data from a centralized network?
i am not trying to fuds, but that's the truth of science.
Even the first sentence of the ANS whitepaper makes clear that it is decentralised. The current layout supports a theoretical maximum of 10000 Bookkeeping nodes. Every ANS represents a vote. We can make decisions about the system itself just fine. Enjoy your Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitcoin will probably use as much electricity as Denmark by 2020 and both Ethereum and Bitcoin cannot handle truly vast transaction flows. Also enjoy your forking potential and the One Man bookkeeping limitations that both systems provide. You stick to Bitcoin and Ethereum and I will stick to ANS and we will see what is more successful in the long run. How is that for a deal?
Are Bitcoin and Ethereum more decentralised? Yes, but that comes at the cost of vast energy expense, inefficiency and speed. A single bitcoin transaction uses as much energy as almost four households use for a day. You might call that great. I call that bad design. I am fine with agreeing to disagree. The markets will speak for themselves.
everyone just saying they are better than BTC.
yes, you are right, you can have a lot SPV wallet or so called bookkeeping nodes,
but you do not have the right to be a full nodes, you just listen what the validation nodes tell you.
that's make no difference someone rent 8 server to offer money printing service.and you do not even know what you are buying, time will tell who is right.
Bitcoin is bitcoin, Ethereum will be Ethereum.
You obviously did not notice that at
https://www.antshares.org/ the number of FULL NODES at this point is 417. I think the only requirement to become a full node is having 10,000 ANS and running the proper Linux system whilst meeting all technical specifications. Everyone else who runs it is in effect a light node. If you read the network protocol (
https://github.com/AntShares/AntShares/wiki/Network-Protocol), you will see that ANS holders can vote on validator candidates and it can be increased to a maximum of 1024. Validator candidates can be accepted, rejected or revoked. This is a continuous process. Let's give another example: Does a Presidential
candidate run the country? No, it is a candidate who
can be elected by others. That is the same with the validator
candidates you are referring to. If you noticed carefully, 7 are effective and 1 was revoked. This appears to be an old list for
selecting candidates. The number that matters is the 417 FULL NODES. This number is increasingly rapidly in the last few days. Contrary to Bitcoin ANS holders get to vote on which parties they trust to run the system.