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Abstract²Ethereum, the well­known blockchain platform, does
not have any limit for block size, unlike Bitcoin. However, there
are other obstacles in processing unlimited transactions per
second. Ethereum blockchain code runs by different clients, and
they run on different speed and present the different level of
performance. This paper studies Ethereum transactions and it
analyzes two most popular Ethereum clients, Geth and Parity, on
a private blockchain to obtain the better understanding of the
effect of different clients on Ethereum performance. The results
show that the transactions are 89.8 percent on average faster in
Parity client in comparison with Geth client, using the same
system configuration.
Keywords-Blockchain; Ethereum; Transaction; Performance
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