What is ‘sharding’ and what is its importance in the blockchain?

Davidnick05 Mar, 2019Technology

The �sharding� (which we could translate into Spanish as partitioning) is a method by which the processing and storage load is partitioned and distributed throughout a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. One of the challenges of the blockchain, and other networks based on the same idea of ??the block chain, is its scalability : expand and expand those distributed networks to address the growing commercial interest without affecting performance. And the rule is simple: as more teams join a network in which all nodes are equal to each other, the effectiveness of the entire system tends to degrade. This problem of scalability is already being experienced by both bitcoin and Ether (based on the Ethereum network), so it is becoming urgent to find a solution that allows these networks to be extended without limit. That�s where the term we unravel today comes into play: �sharding�.