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protocol support @ethereumfndn // supporting the core development process prev exec director @ethstaker // decentralization / privacy / open source maxi
Joined April 2022
blockchain tech without the cypherpunk, antimonopolistic underpinnings is dystopian. don't get distracted by VC culture, points, & airdrops. it's a siren song.
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@scottshapiro So bc you have no effective way of differentiating bt the two, you're asking users to reduce their own security practices. Same vibe as when bank fraud detection asks for all sorts of invasive info & gets impatient with you when you won't furnish it & primes you to get scammed.
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"the company merger". I can't stop laughing at this
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@scottshapiro I travel a lot and am often on insecure wifi! You're essentially saying "We have no other way of identifying you as 'not a hacker' unless you're willing to expose yourself because hackers don't do that, so pls expose yourself". What's the difference between this and "You don't.
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ethereum is being built to make the world better (more fair / efficient / transparent) - not to make you rich.
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Very stoked to share that I'm joining the @ethereum Foundation's Protocol Support team. I'm super excited to work with a team of people who I've long admired and with core devs who are doing much of the hard work in Ethereum. @ethStaker is a precious resource in supporting the.
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Coinbase is trying to get people onchain with one hand and making life difficult for those who actually use it on the other. @Coinbase KYC has been harassing me since October, threatening to close my account if I don't prove the source of my funds with screenshots of my salary
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Initiating the "Checkpoint" series on the @ethereumfndn blog - accessible, non-technical overviews of the last 4-5 All Core Devs calls with a sentiment check with what's being focused on
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Pectra mainnet date confirmed May 7.Let's gooooo.
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I guess hot take: Bitcoin will be largely irrelevant by the time its issuance runs out. so will Ethereum. they'll both be supplanted by better tech. it's like people in 1908 developing AM radio and thinking it's going to be the basis of communication in 2024.
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idk pretty bullish, if you ask me, that btc maxis are spending this much effort to try to damage ethereum's reputation by fabricating "rollback discussion" misinformation when everyone in the ethereum community knows that's not possible . had no idea they felt this threatened.
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I aggregated some info on the EF R&D teams today - descriptions, research, repos, general links. I drafted it for the EF internship applicants, but it got to a place where it seemed like it would be a good resource for the community as a whole.
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Absolutely wild how different two protocol votes can look when one community is active and invested in the long-term health of the chain and the other is there for dominance and short-term gains
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Checkpoint #2 is live! Accessible updates of the last 4-5 All Core Dev calls. Pectra is live on mainnet in ~a week, are you caught up on ACD?. β Successful Hoodi upgrade.β Wen history expiry?.β Fusaka scope.β EOF removed.β New ACD call structure post-Pectra.β Link below
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ACD is back after its 2 week break tomorrow (Thurs) at 2 pm UTC!.𧡠[ 1 / 4 ]. Agenda: EthMag: Ramping back up after a sleepy 2 weeks but we're in the home stretch for Pectra, so we'll soon see more convo about future forks.
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this is healthy & working as intended. The Ethereum PoS consensus mechanism doesn't overpay for security like PoW did. If there are more than enough validators, low yield encourages you to put your assets elsewhere. validators are in service of Ethereum, not the other way around
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After the 27.3 hour waiting period, the earliest consolidations have landed. Houston, we have chonky validators
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Wrote a post for app devs frustrated w the opacity of the Ethereum upgrade process. It loosely describes the process & soft guidelines to participate. The process itself evolves, so comments on what's not clear or what else is frustrating are welcome!.
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π₯΅ SPICY All Core Devs call today. Pretty strong consensus from the Pectra Retrospective post that the people want faster fork cadences. that's going to mean less dilly-dallying about scope and more aggressively presented opinions.
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Posting this again - I think it's important that we retain "solo staker" as the definition of a node operator who validates without anything between them and the Beacon Chain contract. It is the most "solo" way of staking. In contrast, "independent operators" can look like a lot
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"Rough consensus" appreciation post re: blob increase timeline. - Francis from Base came to ACD #142 to advocate for a blob increase (1).- It sparked conversations about the current bandwidth requirements & availability of smaller network participants (2)(3)(4).- The need to.
Rough consensus from AllCoreDevs to increase the blob target/max from 3/6 to 6/9, pending further testing and devnet results.
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I'm not an Eth maxi - I'm a decentralization maxi for working products. If I saw another chain that had as much momentum, talent, & opportunity as Ethereum has, with >10,000 permissionless nodes, and was doing something better than Ethereum? . You can bet I'd be packing my bags.
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An annotated map of the places I'd like to see more people running nodes
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Today gives us a great illustration to understand what a "surround vote" is!. HoleΕ‘ky went through the Pectra fork today and a bug caused some execution clients to vote for an invalid block. They didn't know it was invalid, but Erigon & Reth did - these two execution clients kept.
@nixorokish Just before this causes confusion: voting on an invalid block won't get you slashed, but operators will have to force their validators to vote on the good chain after having voted with an invalid source (this is slashable) in order to justify the good chain and save the rest.
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@iamDCinvestor - i stake.- until recently, my salary was paid in crypto (both ETH and USDC).- for 8 months last year, i paid rent in crypto.- i bought physical pesos with crypto every two weeks while living in argentina for those 8 months.- ethstaker pays all its contractors onchain.- my.
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That feeling when arrogant young blood opining on the future of Ethereum comes in hot and tells the one of the most OG cypherpunks I know, who literally wrote the book on Ethereum, to shut down his node and unstake
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PSA: You can't both ridicule the idea of raspberry pi validators AND advocate for 1 ETH validators. If we want 1 ETH validators, we need to lower the cost of the hardware that validators are run on. The cheapest you can run hardware at home right now is ~$800. A @dappnode costs.
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Forking repos is good. It's why open source is great, cuz we can iterate and improve on work. But prolly best to say "hey, we're a clone of this other protocol, & here's where we improved" rather than wait for the community to start recognizing vestigial code you forgot to remove
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1000000% the best part of this talk was when someone walked up to me afterwards and said .~"I'm a genesis staker and I've been feeling a little like we were being too idealistic and maybe it isn't worth it to solo stake with all these big orgs coming online so thank you for this".
Are solo stakers valuable for censorship resistance? . @nixorokish discusses how solo stakers fundamentally care about the value of the network's at the #CensorshipWTF
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The quality and ethos of people working on Ethereum is unprecedented.
TLDR: I dropped the EigenLayer advisorship, left the ultra sound team, and made other changes to double down on neutrality and focus on L1 research and coordination. In September I let go of the EigenFoundation advisorship. I want to apologise to the Ethereum community and EF.
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Speaking only for myself: I want to say that, as a woman, I have never felt more supported, mentored, and physically protected than I have in the web3 industry π§΅.
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There's a LOT of different research & development in the pipeline for Ethereum protocol changes and differing perspectives on how existing issues should be handled or prioritized. And async comms can make progress slooooow. π§΅[ 1 / 10 ].
Before @devcon, core devs had an L1 R&D workshop. For (I think?) the first time, we compiled notes on the sessions and made them public. Just pushed them to the ethereum/pm repo π.
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50 Mbps upload bandwidth as an assumption for participation in Ethereum staking is too high given global average speeds. 25 seems more doable, but it's incongruous to say we can both rely on home stakers to build local blocks but also 'price' them out in terms of bandwidth
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1/6 𧡠Ethereum's upcoming regular Thurs protocol development call: ACDE #209.10 Apr 14:00 UTC. Pectra is already scheduled - we're transitioning to mostly talking about Fusaka (the next hard fork) and process decisions.
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Decentralization is the key feature of blockchains. The purpose of the majority of research proposals rn is how to maintain that decentralization. If you're advocating for sacrificing it for efficiency, it's probably bc you expect to be on the winning end of that centralization.
@drjasper_eth This is going to happen anyways. MaxEB is the least controversial initial change. Long term, SSF already implicitly accepts, and rainbow staking responds, to the reality that solo staking is simply not sustainable. Smaller still big val set is fine.
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okay, i updated my validators. it took 64 seconds. i am pectra-ready π«‘
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Layman outcomes from Ethereum's All Core Devs - Consensus #149:. βΆοΈ devnet-6 will likely launch next week.βΆοΈ proposed timing for Pectra:.Sepolia: Feb 12.Holesky: Feb 19.Mainnet: Mar 11 (NOT FINAL, just an ambitious goal).βΆοΈ what have we learned about the upgrade process from.
ACD Consensus layer #149 - Thursday 23 Jan 14:00 UTC (same ETH time, same ETH channel).𧡠[ 1 / 3 ]. Agenda: Ethmag will be here: Gon be another quiet one - devs are still implementing / testing. First, Pectra updates!.
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ACD call today spoke of the hardware requirements again (EIP will be finalized in a week) - my suggestion was that we aim to keep validators net profitable after hardware costs within 6-12 months (we're currently at 4 months to make up hardware costs). There was pushback today on.
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1/6 𧡠Ethereum's upcoming regular Thurs protocol development call: ACDC #154.3 Apr 14:00 UTC. How Pectra is going, confirming (or moving) the proposed Apr 30 mainnet date, Fusaka scope preferences, PeerDAS updates & accelerating blobs.
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Today's All Core Dev call agreed on a set of EIPs to Consider For Inclusion ("CFI") for Fusaka and Declined For Inclusion ("DFI") the majority of the EIPs proposed for the fork. The reason for this is devs want to ship PeerDAS (which is Scheduled For Inclusion, "SFI") as quickly
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This coming Thursday's All Core Devs meeting agenda:. Relevant teams: EL, rollups, CL, anyone with a desire for CL-only forks. Pectra: the scope is mostly finalized minus a few details. βΆοΈ Aiming to agree on a BLS precompile final pricing scheme. More info.
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Lido withdrawals are live - if you wanted to move your ETH to a more decentralized, more minority protocol, now is the time!.
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this is a huge step toward transparency and the numbers actually surprise me - this report states that coinbase manages 11.4% of the stake, which is much lower than previously estimated. it's been very difficult to identify coinbase validators because of their staking methods,.
Weβre excited to announce our first Ethereum Validator Performance Report, marking a new level of transparency in our ETH staking operations. This comprehensive report covers:.β Validator uptime at 99.75%.β Participation rate of validators at 99.75%.β Zero slashing or
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there were 420 days between Dencun and Pectra.who is responsible for this.we all know it wasn't an accident.
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1/9 𧡠Ethereum's regular Thurs protocol development call: ACD Execution #206.27 Feb 14:00 UTC (same ETH time, same ETH channel). Woof - this one's gonna be interesting. I imagine most topics'll be crowded out by the HoleΕ‘ky fork. Devs are actively working on recovering it! π.
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everybody mega hesitant to announce hoodi a success after the last two testnet forks but everything is looking stable for now. it takes a bit to make sure everything is truly gucci but the pectra fork epoch is finalized so. tentative success :D.
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Q: Can you get slashed as a solo staker for being offline?.A: No! You'll NEVER get slashed for being offline. Downtime as a solo staker is nothing to be afraid of!. Explanation: Slashing happens only when the network detects something very suspicious or malicious going on. The.
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One of the devs in the All Core Dev call right now is advocating for his EIP from the maternity ward where his baby was just born π ethereum devs have serious dedication.
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Look y'all. Besu had an issue earlier this month. It wasn't a big deal cuz they're ~4% of the network. Nethermind has an issue today. It's not a big deal cuz they're ~10% of the network. Client bugs can happen IN ANY CLIENT. Geth could be next. It would be a big deal.
Is it too early?. pls switch away from geth and save our eth bags π©
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1/8 𧡠ACD Execution #205.13 Feb 14:00 UTC (same ETH time, same ETH channel).All links in last tweet!. Pectra testnet fork dates will be chosen and the list of EIPs proposed for inclusion ("PFI") for Fusaka grows longer. .
1/7 𧡠ACD Consensus #150.6 Feb 14:00 UTC (same ETH time, same ETH channel). Agenda: EthMag: This week's ACD will feel like a continuation of last week's: Pectra progress, hardware / bandwidth, scaling, ACD process, & Fusaka.
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if you hold stETH, rETH, frxETH or ANY liquid staking token, client diversity directly affects you. You can help by reaching out to your provider and asking them if they collect metrics on their operators' client diversity and what they're doing to encourage client diversity.
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The data has shown that it's safe & we're only at 34% signalling - we need 16% more for it to count! . If the team that's managing your stake hasn't moved their gas limit up - they're either not paying attention or their engineering team needs some motivation. Ask your provider!.
No more 'Mr Nice Guy' about the gas limit increase from me - time to publicly call out the larger providers to increase their gas limit to at least 36 million!. @binance @stakefish @BitcoinSuisseAG @upbitglobal @krakenfx @Bitstamp @P2Pvalidator @Mantle_Official @Figment_io.
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The solo staking / blob increase issue happening right now seems to be two different conversations:.1. Low upload speeds and low-quality modem/router hardware degrading the quality of life of solo stakers.2. Solo stakers are the most likely parties to be building locally on.
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This coming Thursday's All Core Devs meeting agenda:.Agenda: EthMag: [ π§΅1 / 6 ].
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What if the bug was in Geth instead of Besu?. - Most of Geth validators would be offline.- Those with failovers would switch to another client.- If not enough failovers, finality would be lost.- Inactivity leak would kick in.- Penalties would start increasing quadratically.
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This went to a solo staker!!! Cool half mil proposal.
High Proposer Payment Alert! πΈ .Validator 0x49d2. (id: 201532) received 188.16 ETH. Builder: 0xa32aad. (Titan Builder)π·β.Slot: 8,971,281. Received through the @ultrasoundmoney relay.
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Mercenary types framing values of decentralization as "luxury beliefs" in favor of scaling for narrative points is what ultimately kills the value of the chain. I don't think they even know it. This view is so short term. Same feeling as optimizing for quarter-over-quarter profit.
We can no longer afford to eat the cost of these luxury beliefs. Solo staking in a place where you do not have appropriate bandwidth imposes an externality on the network. If Ethereum doesn't win, the world looks much more dystopian than a world where Ethereum sacrifices a few.
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1/6 𧡠ethereum's upcoming Thurs protocol development call: ACDE #210.24 Apr 14:00 UTC. Pectra is scheduled, client releases are out, Fusaka is mostly scoped. Time to start talking about Glamsterdam? Parallelizing development of multiple forks at a time is on track :D.
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1/7 𧡠Ethereum's All Core Devs regular Thursday protocol development call: ACD Consensus #151.20 Feb 14:00 UTC (same ETH time, same ETH channel). All links in last tweet!.
1/8 𧡠ACD Execution #205.13 Feb 14:00 UTC (same ETH time, same ETH channel).All links in last tweet!. Pectra testnet fork dates will be chosen and the list of EIPs proposed for inclusion ("PFI") for Fusaka grows longer. .
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@christine_dkim @MaxResnick1 because he's not a critic in good faith - he's made his short career out of trolling and leaving ethereum. the overwhelming sentiment coming out of ethdenver this year was exhaustion at an all-time-high "pay for play" vibe and outrage-farmer maxing. max's game falls right into.
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A widespread issue that was fixed within minutes and the first people to notice were the people all over the world securing the network, stakers, who immediately all came online to ask what was going on and how to fix. This is a pretty robust layer 0 we've got here.
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Airdrops have brought up the Q "what is a solo staker, anyway?" so I wrote up some thoughts on defining terms around validators and node operators. The TL;DR is that I think the important distinction to make is if someone is an "independent operator".
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Of *known* entities, Coinbase's shift by the end of Mar to 50/50 Geth / Nethermind gets us below 66%. HOWEVER - since not all entities have reported, we could still potentially be at ~70% if all non-reporting entities are 100% Geth. This is GREAT progress but we have more to go!
We told you we were working towards diversifying the execution clients on our Ethereum validators. Today, we're excited to provide an update!. This week weβve begun rolling out support for @NethermindEth β with support for @ErigonEth close behind!.
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i give a flying fuck β¨.
I know nobody gives a flying fuck today (i don't either lol) but we had streak of almost 2k blocks above 30m, highest being 32,188,418 gas limit
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This this so bullish for your right to privacy π.
These smart contracts must now be removed from the sanctions list and US persons will once again be allowed to use this privacy-protecting protocol. Put another way, the governmentβs overreach will not stand. 2/6.
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- Validators serve the network, not the other way around.- ETH is not meant to be staked.- Not everybody needs to be staking.
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1/5 𧡠Ethereum's regular Thursday protocol development call: ACD Consensus #153.20 Mar 14:00 UTC. Light agenda, I expect this one to be relatively 'routine'. New testnet launched, *approximate* timing for Pectra on mainnet, PeerDAS & blob scaling updates, other Fusaka things.
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Roman's case is still underfunded and it has implications for the entire industry . If we can fund fun projects, rugpulls, and memecoin, we should be able to fund something that defends our industry's right to exist. Donation address is in the thread.
Roman and Alexey's cases will set precedent for every single developer building on crypto rails. We cannot let these charges stand. Holding developers responsible for the actions of third parties is cruel and unjust. Roman and Alexey deserve freedom, nothing less.
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sup.
7/ We are performing our latest assessment of alternative execution clients and will have more to share on that process and our next steps by the end of February. To sum up, we take client diversity very seriously, have made some good progress, and are striving to improve it.
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If it goes smoothly, this could be the last devnet before Pectra is launched on the testnets. Next step after testnets is Pectra on mainnet!
Pectra Devnet5 is live π.How to join: Follow along:
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Want to come into crypto and get immediate funding? Make solo staking sexier. UX is still way too difficult. The intersection of people with 32 ETH and people who feel comfortable using a command line interface is such a small subset of people.
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we need more write-ups like this after forks! This is fantastic; it filters out the technical details & tells us what happened in plain language. It's so unique to this ecosystem that we see issues arise from anyone being able to read dev convo as upgrades are being rolled out.
I wrote up the story of the Pectra incident on Sepolia, its an interesting story about edge cases, coordination and an attacker who swooped in and made our lives much harder!. Check it out (4min read): .
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Here's my setup! It's specifically designed so that the people living there don't have to mess with it at all since they were nice enough friends to let a nomad drop off a computer on their network :). #StakeFromHome
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solo staker = anyone who puts up 32 ETH and has full custody of their validator (may run hardware elsewhere). home staker = anyone who validates the network w hardware at home. includes DVT & rocket pool operators. staker = anyone who stakes in any way (LST, custodied, whatever).
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@LefterisJP nope. a culture of bailouts is a place where players ignore risk (usually with money that doesn't belong to them).
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Running an Ethereum validator at home requires very little electricity! The (super)majority of people know it :).
Which of these is the closest to the approximate electricity cost per month of running an Ethereum validator at home?.
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I'm confident that if I just keep wording this a hundred different ways, it'll eventually click for people. Being complacent about a supermajority client is reckless
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Quick PSA: client software is core Ethereum infrastructure. They don't make money from having a majority. In fact, being a supermajority is a super stressful position for them to be in - it's a ton of responsibility. Execution client diversity is in everyone's interest.
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@AyaMiyagotchi I'm sorry that the CT mob mentality has been unleashed on you, Aya. Nonprofit ED work is drudgery, compliance, & not the glamour the community wants it to be. Ethereum has led by those w/o a desire to be a main character & the current narrative doesn't touch on the value of that.
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this. might be the coolest ethereum dashboard i've seen. it really does a great job visualizing time throughout a slot!.
Vape cabal? $1.5B? Libra? Trench warfare?. Brother what are you talking about? I'm busy watching the Ethereum beacon chain in the @ethPandaOps lab
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1/9 𧡠Ethereum's regular Thursday protocol development call: ACD Consensus #152.6 Mar 14:00 UTC (same ETH time, same ETH channel). tl;dr: (how) do we save Holeőky, how do we test Pectra features (devnet / shadowfork), Sepolia fork, & will this kerfuffle shift mainnet timing?.
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Quick summary of All Core Devs #147 Pectra-related items. Official summary with more details and non-Pectra topics will be posted here in the coming days: βΆοΈ Testnet: Mekong is stable, no updates. Currently at 36 mil gas limit.βΆοΈ Minor renaming of a field.
This coming Thursday's All Core Devs meeting agenda:. Relevant teams: EL, rollups, CL, anyone with a desire for CL-only forks. Pectra: the scope is mostly finalized minus a few details. βΆοΈ Aiming to agree on a BLS precompile final pricing scheme. More info.
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AMA about the maxEB change coming in Pectra. π«± "maxEB" = the maximum effective balance of a validator aka the value it earns yield on.π«΅ It mostly affects people running validators.π«΄ It makes it so a validator can earn on anywhere between 32 and 2048 ETH.π€ It lowers the.
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all these totally real hot-girl pfps following me and liking my tweets. it must be my winning personality.
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Ethereum client dev Github heat maps.lol @ the guy who only pushes on Fridays
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FYI - maxEB spec is being decided rn and they're looking for people to speak up on custom ceilings. A custom ceiling allows you to set whatever # you want to compound up to for your validator (e.g. 37). imo not including this would remove a lot of the benefits for solo stakers
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1/5 𧡠ethereum's upcoming Thurs protocol development call: ACDE #211.8 May 14:00 UTC. Pectra is complete! Time to put our full weight behind Fusaka and start talking more seriously about Glamsterdam and core development process improvements
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For context, it's much easier to estimate *node* distribution - but not every node is a validator. This is the first estimate of *validator* geographic distribution. And it looks. SO HEALTHY! . Awesome to see - great work, @chainbound_ !.
πExcited to share the outcome of ROP-8: Geographical distribution of Ethereum validators π.by @mempirate and @namn_grg from @chainbound_
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In FOCIL breakout #2 - it's really impressive how much progress is being made both by researchers and by each of the clients. There's lots of active interest in Ethereum's censorship resistance.
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