Weekly General Discussion - June 26, 2023 <-> July 02, 2023

fiah, 11 months ago

Swell Discord got hacked, don’t click on anything and GTFO!

anon, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

As part of the Reddit exodus, I’ve also done a lot of spring cleaning of my Discord servers too. I’ve left all of them, except the EVMaverick one on which I lurk mostly. I am not happy with Discord as a platform either.

For one, Discord threads aren’t indexed by search engines, meaning much of the knowledge is lost on all non-participants. Second, searching within Discord is a pain. Third, there is just too many hacks, scams, and doxxing happening. Fourth, there’s excessive centralization in one platform and company that may eventually go to shit in the name of eternal growing monetization, just like Reddit did.

refugeddit, 11 months ago

I thought u meant EVM discord and had a mini heart attack

SilentJohn, 11 months ago

at this point, I'm done with discord. What a joke.

All the nft projects I was part of are dead anyways. daily gwei and evmav discord seem to be the only active and informative ones.

fiah, 11 months ago

reminder for everyone running validators to update MEV-boost: github.com/flashbots/mev-boost/releases/tag/v1.6

it’s been a while since 1.5. I don’t see huge changes between 1.5 and 1.6

anon, 11 months ago

Thanks for the reminder. I also recently upgraded my CL/EL clients. It’s nice to see that updates are now less frequent. We’re getting into a steady state where solo node maintenance is at most just a matter of once-monthly logging in, applying security upgrades to the OS, and perhaps upgrading the staking stack. Kudos to the dev teams who’ve produced these clients and achieved relative stability less than a year since the merge.

T0Bii, 11 months ago

Great idea with the weekly, especially in the beginning.
I'll be on vacation for a while but once I'm back I'll see if I can make the nitter bot work on here as well if that's something you guys want.

Additionally I highly recommend the ethfinance buddy extension: https://github.com/etheralpha/ethfinance-extension
It as a few kbin features as well like automatically sort by newest. It even shows the amount of doots in here. wow.

refugeddit, 11 months ago

Nitter bot would be awesome!

anon, 11 months ago

Thanks for creating a weekly. I posted earlier about the ratio in a standalone post because there was no daily available. Happy to hear reactions here instead!

refugeddit, 11 months ago

The ratio, in a sense is a way for us ethereum folks to cope with the constant abuse we have endured from btc maxis.

The day the ratio flips is the day we kinda proved that we were 'right' and they were wrong about us. It proves that ethereum is no longer a shitcoin

I for one understand why this sentiment surfaced, but I do agree that at a certain point we shouldn't care anymore

SilentJohn, 11 months ago

I dgaf about the ratio and tbh it's kind of cringy and silly that ethfinanciers focus on it as much as they do. Bitcoin could go to $1,000,000 and the ratio drop like a rock, ... , and I wouldn't care. I'd be happy for everybody holding bitcoin. What bitcoin does or is doesn't influence why I'm invested in and using Ethereum/ETH.

refugeddit, 11 months ago

At this point now, I agree with what you say. I had a different perspective when I started in 2016 though, mostly because of the constant FUD I had to face when talking with militant BTC maxis.

At this point, I think there's nothing much left besides slow adoption that will make Ethereum thrive. It is now a matter of when, not if

refugeddit, 11 months ago

New weekly, next week we may see a lot more refugees!