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A neutral community resource for education and support around Ethereum staking. Maintained by @nixorokish @butta_eth
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We're about 10 minutes away from starting the London Network Upgrade Livestream Party!
It's not too late to hang out! Join the livestream here:
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DVT enables lower-bond validators but it doesn't address the fact that hardware is still too expensive to justify buying a computer to earn rewards on a 1 ETH DVT validator
EthStaker, with
@divastaking
and
@stakesaurus
is running a 10-week pilot program to subsidize hardware for…
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We did it, crypto twitter
‼️ Ethereum Client Diversity Update 📢
As part of our client diversity strategy, we have successfully transitioned from GETH to BESU.
Client diversity is an ongoing priority, and the GETH supermajority poses an extreme risk, possibly burning the majority of staked ETH in the…
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CALL TO ACTION: Node operators should diversify their execution clients away from a majority Geth setup. In the current supermajority execution client environment, there's a significant monetary risk for operators running only Geth
Read about it here:
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Did you know that members of EthStaker have released audited free and open source software to help you set up your solo validator?
- Wagyu Ken Gen is the staking-deposit-cli on easy mode
- ethdocker and ethwizard are software that automate the staking process and guide you…
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Solo validators please consider using 😀
→ 0 block censorship
→ 1559 block inclusions
→ 2.69% of validators connected
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The Merge. It's happening. Are you prepared?
What🖥️: EthStaker Merge Prep Validator Workshop
When🗓️: Friday, July 29th @ 11AM EDT
This is a great opportunity for solo stakers to prepare for and ask questions about the merge.
Full Details:
#Ethereum
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Mint your POAP to create an indisputably authentic proof that you have been part of this historically relevant time in the life of ethereum.
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BLOBS ARE COMING
Testnets are forked, client releases are out, and blobs are here - have you updated your node for Dencun on mainnet?
We'll be livestreaming the fork as usual, along with
@EthCatHerders
and
@sassal0x
March 13, 13:55 UTC (live at 13:00)
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what the faaaaaaack!? it's a total infestation of solo stakers! We're centraliziiiiiiiiiiing!
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EthStaker has a new open source website to provide a place to find all the best staking resources - docs, updates, guides, beginner resources & events - all under one roof 🪅
If you see any missing resources / have feedback, pls let us know or make a PR!
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gm - you can now stake any amount of ETH through the Ledger Live app with
@Rocket_Pool
and with
@Kiln_finance
Super excited to see
@Ledger
supporting diversification of staked ETH!
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EthStaker will be livestreaming the
@Rocket_Pool
Atlas upgrade happening on Apr 17, 23:45 UTC (7:45pm ET) 🧡
Atlas:
- Enables Shapella support / withdrawals
- Allows validators to create / convert to 8 ETH minipools 🪅❕
- Other updates
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👏 that's another ~7% of all ETH staked that's now bringing down the supermajority risk
This is what it looks like to have a responsible staking provider engineering team keeping assets safe
We have completed our initial rollout and are pleased to report that roughly 50% of our validators are now running on
@NethermindEth
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Congratulations to BorisBlock on discord for winning our Eth2 mainnet POAP design contest with a landslide of a vote. We will be in touch to arrange sending you the $1000 prize that was kindly provided by
@etherscan
!
These look awesome!
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Is the ETH-1 / ETH-2 merge (and PoW shutdown) coming before sharding? Learn this and more watching this Q & A session with
@dannyryan
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Get a precious collectible to never forget the day of the merge.
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Shapella has arrived and we want you to be a part of this momentous occasion. Here are helpful links to participate
YouTube Watch Party:
POAP Painting Party:
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The Ethereum Shanghai / Capella fork enables withdrawals & goes live on Apr 12, 22:27 UTC
When is ___ enabling withdrawals?
Solo stakers: Apr 12, 22:27 UTC
@Coinbase
: ~Apr 13
@krakenfx
: ~Apr 13
@Rocket_Pool
: Apr 18, 00:00 UTC*
@binance
: by Apr 19
@LidoFinance
: No date yet**…
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We're hosting
@Rocket_Pool
next Thursday, April 6th at 12 PM ET to talk about their Atlas upgrade 🚀
We'll talk about how they're moving from 16 ETH minipools to 8 ETH minipools, withdrawals, and other things they've got planned
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Right after the Shanghai fork is a good time to start looking into how you can move your ETH into a better protocol.
If you're staking in Coinbase, you're going to have the opportunity to move to a decentralized, on-chain, more safe, more recommended way of staking
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A fix for the issue affecting Nethermind validators has been released:
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Holesky Dencun fork in ~13 hours! No EthStaker livestream but we'll see you for the mainnet Dencun livestream!
countdown:
watch it go live:
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As expected, Goerli participation is low and the chain isn't finalizing. This could be a combination of client issues and of validators not updating / not running. Expect hours / days of non-finality.
It's not particularly concerning and devs will spend the next few days making…
PSA: setting expectations for the Goerli hard fork tonight👇
The participation is low (~80%). Losing finality requires approximately 10% of validators to be offline. Being offline could be due to operators not upgrading a piece of software (and there are multiple)...
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Thanks for tuning into the call! POAP proceeds are going to the Smoothly solo staker smoothing pool to better incentivize the most critical and decentralized form of staking for censorship resistance on Ethereum!
Dencun was a resounding SUCCESS. These devs & researchers are…
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Holešky is launched! Awesome job EF DevOps et al!!
Welcome to the new testnet 🐟💰❔
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New year, new community call
🗓️ - Thursday, January 5th @ 5:00PM UTC
🖥️ -
We'll be joined by the
@ssv_network
to discuss their platform! As always, there will be a POAP for those who attend the livestream.
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A+ SOLO STAKING SOFTWARE
Key generation:
- staking-deposit-CLI
- Wagyu Key Gen (GUI for staking-deposit-CLI)
Setup:
- EthDocker
- EthWizard
- Stereum
- Sedge
Quality of life:
- Smooth - solo staking smoothing pool
- Rescue Node - fallback node for emergencies & maintenance
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EthStaker supports the reduction of ETH staked in any protocol that houses >22% of staked ETH. This will be ever-shifting & means that we'll recommend different providers at different times, but right now is the time to withdraw from Lido and choose a more decentralized protocol
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We're hosting a livestream validator workshop with the
@Rocket_Pool
team on Saturday, August 28th @ 10:00pm UTC.
Rocket Pool's very own senior blockchain engineer will be building a validator from scratch step-by-step.
Set a reminder here 👇
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Frequently asked Dencun question:
How much more disk space will my node need with blobs being added?
Answer (from
@yorickdowne
):
Max 103 GiB for blobs, expected average 50 GiB. A 2TB drive is still fine for now.
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We're ~24 hours away from the Goerli Merge Community Call hosted by
@BanklessHQ
.
Come hang out as we celebrate this historic moment. The EthStaker crew will be there, along with other special guests, and a
@poapxyz
will be distributed!
Full Details:
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Huge thanks to the entire
@Rocket_Pool
team for taking time out of your day to jump on a AMA Livestream.
If you weren't able to catch us live, check out the full recording below! 👇
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Is your node ready for Dencun?
☑️ Consensus layer client updated?
☑️ Execution layer client updated?
☑️ mev-boost updated?
t-minus 36 hours, procrastinatooors!
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Sneak preview of a new hardware page coming to an EthStaker webpage near you
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⚠️ There is currently a scam staking service that's aggressively marketing. Stakereum is not real, it's not staking.
Before you stake with ANY service, do your research.
Here's a helpful checklist:
- Search EthStaker's discord for chatter about the …
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Update!
@EthStaker
'll be hosting the Shapella Livestream from the
@ethereum
Protocol channel
Apr 12th, 6pm ET: 30 min before the fork.
We're also hosting a
@POAPart
paint party, organized by
@Logic_Beach
- canvas opens 1 hr pre-fork. Add your pixels!
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EthStaker's hosting a Staking Gathering again this year at
@EFDevconnect
- talks, panels, discussions on staking topics A-Z
When: 13 & 14 Nov (first two days of Devconnect)
Where: Istanbul, 2 min walk from main cowork
If you'd like to speak, apply here:
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Want more info on the Ethereum hard fork happening '23 Q4 / '24 Q1 and what it's going to include? It's centered on Proto-Danksharding (4844) but there are lots more EIPs being considered for inclusion
Check out the
@EthCatHerders
's Dencun Upgrade page:
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Besu issue is resolved - please update your client software!
🚨Attention Mainnet users 🚨
A recent Mainnet block triggered a bug in Besu’s state database. If you are validating with Besu, please review the latest hotfix patch notes. They have details on how to get your node up and running:
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We are planning on making a POAP for solo stakers that build blocks locally (not using services like MEV-boost).
Please propose ideas for the artwork.
PSA MetalAlbert is not running MEV-Boost. A few reasons...
1. It's buggy and poorly tested - it caused missed proposals today.
2. I believe in censorship resistance.
3. I just can't be arsed to run and maintain yet another piece of software.
So I guess we're ngmi 🤷♂️
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changed its data source & the new execution diversity data is much more concerning than what was shown before
What happened? Did we not improve the network health? Answers published today:
spoiler: the new data better answers the…
New update published for !
- New execution diversity data tells a different story 😰
- New consensus diversity data source
- Dark mode support (finally! 😅)
Let's talk about it 👇🧵
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"Thus, node storage hardware can support current rates of state growth for well over a decade without exhausting 2TiB of space.
A 4TiB drive would suffice for almost half a century at current levels of state growth."
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EthStaker will be hosting a livestream for the mainnet Dencun fork, to watch it go live and give real-time updates as usual 🫡 Will post details & link in ~a week
Be there or be square
Ethereum's next network upgrade, Dencun, will go live on mainnet on the 13th of March.
EIP-4844 is coming!
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If the issue were in Geth instead of Besu, a majority of the network would be offline right now. Please switch to a minority execution layer client!
@NethermindEth
highly recommended at this moment
Besu users may be experiencing downtime right now. Besu team is aware and on it - in the meantime, switch to another client or use
@Rescue_Node
while a fix is deployed
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Following guidance provided by government travel advisories, the EF, and people on the ground in Istanbul, EthStaker currently intends on proceeding with the Staking Gathering at
@EFDevconnect
Istanbul as planned
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If you applied to speak at the Staking Gathering, first: thank you!! Second: you can expect to hear back by 13 Sep!
We just published the first batch of confirmed speakers and we're very stoked already. See the full list of confirmed speakers here:
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See you next week for the livestream 🫡
Come for the logs or come for the POAP, we don't mind which
BLOBS ARE COMING
Testnets are forked, client releases are out, and blobs are here - have you updated your node for Dencun on mainnet?
We'll be livestreaming the fork as usual, along with
@EthCatHerders
and
@sassal0x
March 13, 13:55 UTC (live at 13:00)
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Besu users may be experiencing downtime right now. Besu team is aware and on it - in the meantime, switch to another client or use
@Rescue_Node
while a fix is deployed
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What's the problem with Geth having a supermajority and are we ready to push for execution client diversity?
@nethermindeth
@HyperledgerBesu
@yorickdowne
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Finland climbed ahead of Canada this month in node prevalence 🇫🇮
Meanwhile - the DVT Home Staker program applications so far have come in from 23 different countries 🙆
DVT enables lower-bond validators but it doesn't address the fact that hardware is still too expensive to justify buying a computer to earn rewards on a 1 ETH DVT validator
EthStaker, with
@divastaking
and
@stakesaurus
is running a 10-week pilot program to subsidize hardware for…
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The Merge was a wild success, but wen POAP?
- Donate $10 in USDC/RAI/DAI/ETH/MATIC on either Mainnet/Arbitrum/Optimism or Polygon
- Donations accepted until 00:00 UTC Sept. 18
- distribution
Full Instructions here 👇
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We're seeing a huge uptick in activity in the EthStaker channels since withdrawals were enabled - asking what protocols to use, how to move their stake to another service, clarifications and troubleshooting with solo staking, and general interest questions
we love to see it 🚀
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The Shapella fork (withdrawals) goes live on Goerli on Tues March 14, 22:25 UTC
EthStaker will livestream it to update you on the latest progress on the mainnet fork, a recap of what stakers need to do to prepare, and watch the fork happen in real-time.
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EthStaker has added
@dannyryan
's "The Risks of LSD" as a notification bar on its website to highlight the issue of single liquid staking protocol dominance
What other websites are important places to add education on the topic?
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Here’s a clip dedicated to those who contribute to the health and security of the Ethereum network by their efforts to
#stakefromhome
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EthStaker is not currently in the process of a token sale, and we do not have plans for a token at this time. We do think the idea is neat, but our goal is to develop value, not to be extractive. If we ever offer a token it will not be offered in DMs. Obvious scams are obvious.
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Join us next Saturday to learn exactly how PoW is being shutdown from the engineers making it possible.
Of course there will be POAPs 🎖 to keep a memory of this marvelous event.
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We are less than 48hours away from the Ethereum 2.0 launch!
If you are curious what the client logs for a finished setup are:
It's a 24/7 stream until we launch. 🥳
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Want to switch to a minority client or update your node setup but don't want to incur downtime penalties?
Super happy that
@Rescue_Node
now supports solo stakers!!
docs here:
and a dedicated channel in the ethstaker discord if you need help with it
LFG
The Rescue Node is now available to Solo Stakers 🎉
Solo Stakers can use this service as a fallback Beacon Node for maintenance and emergencies.
Access is granted for 10 days at a time, twice per year.
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If you came to the Dencun fork livestream and collected the POAP, you're eligible to join a raffle for a
@gridplus
Lattice! Pull for the winner happens 7 days from today
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Thought exercise: can we quantify the dollar amount of ETH that could be lost in the event of a supermajority bug?
Some discussion of the exercise by
@yorickdowne
and
@grey__wizard
here:
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Congratulations to everyone who played a part in making the Shapella upgrade a resounding success. Thank you to all that participated.
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Tickets for EthStaker's Staking Gathering at
@EFDevconnect
2023 are live 🫡
Speakers / schedule here:
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Nimbus hotfix addressing crashing immediately after being connected to an execution layer node which is not fully synced.
All users of
@ethnimbus
v24.1.0 are advised to upgrade at their earliest convenience.
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When staking 32 ETH, you should be in control of your seed phrase. No one should have access to it, and EthStaker will never advocate for / participate in custodial staking
If someone offers white-glove service & is holding the mnemonic, they're not acting as a part of EthStaker
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Come hang out and watch it with us at
Goerli Dencun fork at 2024-01-17 06:32 UTC
(stream starts at 06:15)
Notes from yesterday's Eth dev call, ACDC
#125
:
- the last cancun/deneb goerli shadow fork launched yesterday, initial analysis was positive, all systems go for goerli fork next wed 🚀
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EthStaker has a series of
@Rocket_Pool
Livestream events coming up:
🗓️ - Rocket Pool Team AMA on Wednesday, September 29th
🗓️ - Rocket Pool Mainnet Launch Livestream on Wednesday, October 6th
There will be
@poapxyz
distributed
Full Details 👇
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Shapella has arrived and we want you to be a part of this momentous occasion. Here are helpful links to participate.
YouTube Watch Party:
Painting Party:
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EthStaker is going live RIGHT NOW with
@Rocket_Pool
to showcase their latest protocol upgrade: Redstone!
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"How to run your first node" workshop by
@rbenzaquen
at
@EtherArgentina
👏
Featuring
@DAppNode
@AvadoCloud
@EthereumOnARM
@EthKipu
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Necessity is the mother of invention: Ben had his seed phrase for his validators stolen and put together a way for his, and thousands of other validators that otherwise would have gone to blackhat hackers, to set withdrawal addresses to ones controlled by the rightful owners…
It took 83 epochs to change all 2133 validators using CLWP EIP-4736.
None of them were stolen by attackers.
The 10 validators that changed to a different address all belong to myself… because I hacked myself with grateful help from a researcher.
Congrats to everyone 🥳
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If you want a keepsake from the Goerli Dencun hardfork, you can mint songadaymann's Blobspace song or grab a Goerli Dencun POAP
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Maverick from
@Rocket_Pool
describes how the Atlas upgrade to Ethereum dramatically increases the liquid staking capacity of Rocket Pool while decreasing the Ether required to operate a minipool.
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If you missed the Staking Gathering, the videos have been uploaded to EthStaker's youtube channel 💫
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Join the
@Ethstaker
team's discussion with Rocketpool April 6th, on the EthStaker YouTube Channel. Be part of the staking revolution and let's decentralize Ethereum!
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Should EthStaker do a Goerli Dencun hard fork / Goodbye Goerli livestream? Last hardfork Goerli will ever see 🥲
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Speaking of
@Gitcoin
Grants, we have a few special requests for you in the Infrastructure round.
Here are our top 5 picks for this round (in addition, of course, to our own that can be found at ):
1. The
@ProtocolGuild
is the highest impact grant when it…
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If only there were a super sleek place to find all those staking resources, education, guides, research, community links, FAQ, news... all in one place... 👀
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Update on DVT Home Staker Program:
We received 135 applications from 41 countries. Many applicants work at well-known blockchain companies, run their own crypto projects, work in tech, teach blockchain at schools, run university blockchain clubs, or have been running testnet…
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We published a page where you can keep up with some aggregated updates on what's going on if there are any incidents that people might want to follow live:
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We are hosting another Zoom / YouTube countdown, this time for the London protocol upgrade of ethereum. Of course there are
@POAPxyz
collectibles for everyone. More info:
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There have been reports of scammers messaging users to send them ETH as a way of helping you to stake with less than 32 ETH. 🚨
Please DO NOT SEND ANYONE YOUR ETH even if they look like a Mod, a friend, or family member.
Even if the 4 character code on the discord name matches.
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So ready for
@EFDevconnect
this November in Istanbul! We'll be hosting the official staking gathering again during the event - please do reach out if you'd like to sponsor and be a part of it.
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Calling all stakers: Please complete the very brief Ethereum Staker survey before December 20. Expect 9-11 questions depending on your responses. Help the EF guide resources. Anyone who has locked Ether is a staker!
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The
@Rocket_Pool
discord has been compromised. Do not click any links from it for the time being. There is no airdrop.
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Last call! Application closes tomorrow. Applicants will hear back by next Friday, 26 Jan
DVT enables lower-bond validators but it doesn't address the fact that hardware is still too expensive to justify buying a computer to earn rewards on a 1 ETH DVT validator
EthStaker, with
@divastaking
and
@stakesaurus
is running a 10-week pilot program to subsidize hardware for…
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"They are the best, quitessential community when it comes to Ethereum staking"
-
@sassal0x
host of the
@DailyGwei_TV
The new
@ethstaker
website provides links to anything you'll need for Ethereum staking.Check it out at
Watch the entire Daily Gwei…
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