Ask HN: What is the Ethereum VM's total computing power?

[monological]

So according to https://ethernodes.org/ there are currently around 5154 synced nodes running EVM code. Based on this, how would you estimate the EVM's total computing power.

[PaulHoule]

All the nodes are processing the same thing so the processing power is equal to one node.

This is why blockchain technology took so long to be invented. If you were going to present a paper at a computer science conference where you use 5000 nodes to do the work of 1 node you never would have had the paper accepted.

[monological → PaulHoule]

You are correct. However, they are working on sharding at the moment, which will allow for different contracts to run at the same time.

[high_byte → monological]

so multiply by amount of shards?

[verdverm → high_byte]

it can get more complicated with the l2 scaling solutions like rollups

depends on how you want to count the beans