Layer 1 horizontal vs vertical scaling: what’s better?📝

With vertical scaling, you increase the power of the nodes in your system.

With horizontal, you just add more nodes to the blockchain.

What’s better? Well, it depends on available time & team.

🗓Vertical scaling is easy to implement but has its effectiveness capped.

📊On the flip side, horizontal scaling is better for the overall system throughput but requires a bit more time in the development oven.

Generally, having fewer powerful nodes is easier to achieve & may make things faster in the short term. But it lowers decentralization, resistance to censorship & transparency, the core values for Web3.