Several Ethereum users took the recent “critical” bug incident as a clear example of the need for client diversity, which is currently skewed toward Geth.
Ethereum infrastructure firm Nethermind has fixed a “critical” bug in several versions of its execution client that reportedly caused users to fail to process blocks on Ethereum.
While the situation affected the users of Nethermind, a minority client, the incident has led some Ethereum community members to reiterate the importance of diversifying away from the majority client, Geth.
The latest hotfix addresses a consensus issue in Nethermind that had been introduced in version 1.23.0, according to a Jan. 21 post on Nethermind’s GitHub account.
