Daily General Discussion - June 20, 2023

cryptOwOcurrency, 10 months ago

Re-posting this from Reddit.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've got a brand new Ethereum execution client, Reth.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Reth is entering its alpha with version 0.1.0 under the permissive Apache/MIT license. We are inviting node operators and users to run nodes and use Reth’s crates to build exciting EVM-centric infrastructure.

Currently it only supports archive sync, but they're working on the other sync modes:

Reth currently only provides archive sync. We intend to provide more granular storage and syncing options in the near future (like full node & snapshots), which you can track on Github. Our ultimate goal is to allow running a node with the minimal storage requirements needed for your needs.

Once it's out of alpha, this will bring our total up to 5 production Ethereum execution clients. Ethereum is the only chain where you can see this kind of diversity, folks. You don't get this kind of treatment with Bitcoin, Cardano or Solana.

Press release: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2023/06/reth-alpha

refugeddit, 10 months ago

Isn't this the client that made the erigon dev (Artem) working on Akula to quit his project? I remember it having some behind the scenes controversy

cryptOwOcurrency, 10 months ago

Yes, I believe it is the client that killed Akula. But I didn’t realize that was controversial. I thought the Akula dev gave up just because the new team was better funded and his effort wasn’t needed anymore.

If you find out what the controversy was, I would be curious to know.

refugeddit, 10 months ago

https://twitter.com/vorot93/status/1595480997117706241

https://twitter.com/vorot93/status/1595552048962994179

basically dev claim code was copy pasted by reth team.
This made him take a long break as a core dev

SilentJohn, 10 months ago

/u/NevilleHarris posted this on reddit:

Polygon proposal released today to migrate it’s PoS chain to a zkEVM. This means $2 billion in assets, millions of users, tons of apps and more apps to come will now be secured by Ethereum.

This is huge. And kudos to the Polygon team for following through. I remember there being doubts that they’d actually stay Ethereum-centric and they’re definitely doing that here.

https://twitter.com/0xpolygonlabs/status/1671208777784209441?s=46&t=H2OSpsEyRhnFonXInsi59g

kbrot, 10 months ago

Enormous news indeed!

btoast777, 10 months ago

I admit I was one of the doubters. Happy to have been proven wrong!

MrVodnik, 10 months ago

This is very good news. Polygon team keeps on delivering, and doing it in right order. My bet is, they'll have two trustless rollups before Optimism decentralizes.

haddockseyes, 10 months ago

Does the bitcoin/ethereum rainbow have any value in predicting market behavior?

kbrot, 10 months ago

There have been some definite birds-eye view correlations. I'd check out Ben Cowen's YT channel, he does a lot of work with regression rainbows.

haddockseyes, 10 months ago

I feel like most of what I've seen about him for the past year and a half is people dunking on his lengthening cycles theory.

nixo, 10 months ago

checking in, using hanni's browser extension. it really does make kbin a :chefskiss: experience

kbrot, 10 months ago

Hanni did an EXCELLENT job with it. I hope he gets noticed by the wider kbin community, though I know the ethfinance ties will have many hesistant.

jbm, 10 months ago

Why do you need a browser extension? You like having hanni recording every site you visit?

refugeddit, 10 months ago

Looks like btc might lead the rally again this time. Hope the rising tide lifts all 🫡

kbrot, 10 months ago

Yep, we're being dragged up in fiat along with BTC'd typical dominance run at the end of a bear. Ride it out, adjust portfolios, manage risk... these months aren't bad of course, but less fun with gramps taking charge. Ah well, happens every cycle. The tunnel's end is nearing!

austonst, 10 months ago

Anyone have experience with Lodestar? Running a relay (Aestus) requires CL clients with a little bit of different code to implement relay-specific behavior. Currently only Lighthouse and Prysm have the appropriate changes, and Prysm has been giving us some weird issues with very high CPU and RAM usage, so we're a little Lighthouse-heavy. I love Lighthouse, but we'd like to diversify a bit. Lodestar has an open issue to implement the necessary changes, which is promising.

But Lodestar is probably the only CL client that I've never worked with. I know it's probably easy enough to figure out how to build a docker image for it, and look up the usual set of command line options, but I'm trying to find whatever excuses I can to post to kbin. So, any thoughts on Lodestar?

kbrot, 10 months ago

I wish I did. Back in the day, I went down the list from Prysm to Nimbus, had quite a bit of trouble on Nimbus, and never continued to the final spot on the CL list with Lodestar.

Someday we'll have @superphiz start up a m/ethstaker here!

jbm, 10 months ago

$1730, 0.64, ETHEREUM.

AtHeartEngineer, 10 months ago

How has the transition away from reddit been? I'd like to actually be done with reddit this time.

jbm, 10 months ago

We're doing double digit comments daily over here now if that answers your question.

SilentJohn, 10 months ago

I've been checking gm.xyz all the time, but it's absolutely dead. Like, ded dead; like 3 active users dead.

I have no strong desire to stay on reddit (I've quit before, coming back to learn about ethereum a couple years ago). If there's an active community on a non-garbage platform, I'll check it out. kbin is ok ... I think it's very niche and barebones.

jbm, 10 months ago

Sigh

MrVodnik, 10 months ago

Slow, we still lack critical mass to make this place engaging enough. I'd say feel free to shitpost until morale improves.

goatmeal, 10 months ago

activitypub link aggregators like kbin and lemmy are still really immature and have technical and UX kinks to work out. I don't think there will be more momentum until it's more polished.