Review on Ethereum by nef prodek

Name: Ethereum
Item: Ethereum
Rating: 4

June 15, 2019

Ethereum

I use Ethereum since 2016. First what I noticed was that I can't use official client because it doesn't work good and I should use some other client, that's dissapointing. There are lot of clients which I didn't have problems with like: Metamask or MyEtherWallet (but only using it in offline wersion, there is also problem with MEW to make safe transactions that it is tedious and takes a lot of time if you use offline generated txs).
Ethereum as a platform to store/create tokens it's not good but there are simpler and more comfortable ways like Waves where it's much more newbie friendly (maybe there are some simple ways to create ERC-20 or other Ethereum tokens which doesn't need to know basics of solidity but I don't know any). 
There are problems with Ethereum that there still can be problems with filled mempool so fees for txs can be artificially inflated. 
Another problem is that there are many scam projects which uses Ethereum as it's platform and there should be some easy way to find out which project is trusted and which could be scam.
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Updated 5 years ago

Rating has not been changed

I think wallets like metamask should work like tronlink. If you want to use some dapp many times in some time (like many times in 1 hour) you confirm it only once. This could help this network to get new users.
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Pros

Fast transaction confirmation if mempool isn't filled
Cheap transactions
Big network which means it's much decentralized
Lot of usefull projects which uses Ethereum as a platform for it's tokens
Lot of helpfull tutorials how to use it
Lot of independent developers make their own clients to use Ethereum
There are new projects/tokens/dapps everyday
POW consensus in big decentralized network reduces the risk of 51% attack

Cons

Official Ethereum wallet is disastrous
Creating ERC-20 tokens isn't simple to create it by newbies
There are still scalability problems if there is too too much transactions in network, mempool sometimes is filled
Full node takes too much place on hard drive
There are lot of scam tokens/projects/dapps
POW consensus consumes a lot of resources