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Daily General Discussion - April 30, 2023
Vitalik teases twitter that "Sharding is coming" with the release of research code, and provides more info here
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Daily General Discussion - April 16, 2023
Casper Version 1 Implementation Guide sees the light.
- Daily General Discussion - February 17, 2023
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[AMA] We are EF Research (Pt. 9: 11 January, 2023)
I would definitely love for there to be more work on ZK programming languages. Exposing the internals more to help people do this was one of my motivations for attempting the task of making my own PLONK implementation. We need more tools to help people write circuits, and verify circuits; we should get to the point where verifying a verification key can be done eg. on etherscan as easily as verifying solidity code can be today.
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Ethereum Energy Consumption
> they have zero power to do anything related to consensus.
Suggest reading what Vitalik has to say if you're going to offer this kind of objection:
https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/papers/disc...
Infura collects upwards of 80 percent of the fees that flow into Ethereum and is in a position to control exactly who participates profitably. If your solution is "minority will fork" the obvious question is surely "with what scalable infrastructure?"
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Cardano Network Developers Increase Block Size by 10%
The main difference between all recent Ethereum sharding proposals since ~2020 (both Danksharding and pre-Danksharding) and most non-Ethereum sharding proposals is Ethereum’s rollup-centric roadmap (see also: [1] [2] [3]): instead of providing more space for transactions, Ethereum sharding provides more space for blobs of data, which the Ethereum protocol itself does not attempt to interpret. Verifying a blob simply requires checking that the blob is available - that it can be downloaded from the network. The data space in these blobs is expected to be used by layer-2 rollup protocols that support high-throughput transactions.
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Daily General Discussion - April 3, 2021
Vitalik Buterin gives a (not so sneak) peek at the current version of the Casper contract.
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Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme
Quite surprised at this comment. The reason I got into blockchain was _because_ of the incredibly difficult technical challenges it poses. Among the few I get to work on:
- How to implement robust p2p networking algorithms for sharding in a distributed system such as Ethereum (a very deep rabbit hole), as Ethereum is migrating to a "sharded" architecture
- How to solve the "data availability problem" https://github.com/ethereum/research/wiki/A-note-on-data-ava.... The current solution uses advanced cryptography known as KZG commitments https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2020/06/16/kate-polynomial-...
- How to solve the problem of "transaction frontrunning", in which miners have an asymmetric advantage in ordering transactions they put in blocks for their benefit, which can adversely affect users creating those transactions. This is a problem known as MEV (Miner Extractable Value) https://research.paradigm.xyz/MEV and there is some incredibly sophisticated work going into this problem. It is a deep engineering problem as well
I could go on and probably give you 20 other incredibly technical, challenging problems that are on the bleeding-edge of this technology. If you're interested, would be happy to chat more!
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Weak statelessness and/or state expiry: coming soon (x-post from EthMagicians)
Verkle trees (very important concept): slides, doc, code
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Daily General Discussion - February 28, 2021
All ethereum research is open source https://github.com/ethereum/research including the cryptography they plan to use for eth2. If you want an overview of what eth2 could look like take a look at the roadmap https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/1333922620857745408 or the eth2 specs https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs
ethmerge.com-content
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The Coinweb Monthly Spin: September Round-Up!
Ethereum Successfully Migrates from PoW to PoS in “The Merge” on September 15th https://ethmerge.com/
- Frequently Asked Questions + Weekly Discussion Thread
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The Ethtrader's Guide to the Merge
You do not need to do anything to protect your funds entering The Merge. This bears repeating: As a user or holder of ETH or any other digital asset on Ethereum, as well as non-node-operating stakers, you do not need to do anything with your funds or wallet before The Merge. 1 Users will experience no change in their day-to-day experience using Ethereum. 2
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When eth merge happens, will we have two sets of coins at same value initially?
FAQ about The Merge https://ethmerge.com/
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Daily General Discussion - September 7, 2022
ethmerge.com is actually a nice simple resource with basic and digestible info about the merge. Is it still maintained? I issued a pull request to update one of the FAQs :)
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Bitcoin is ‘one of the worst cryptocurrencies' claims Cyber Capital founder
After that Bitcoin becomes the second most secure blockchain [ https://ethmerge.com/ ].
- Why The Ethereum Merge is a Monumental Blunder (13 August 2022)
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Merge dates confirmed today.
Sure, but the devs have not been facilitating anywhere near the sort of information that they're communicating to stakers. I'm speaking purely in terms of what to expect. For instance, ethmerge.com has virtually no information for miners.
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The Ethereum Merge and everything after
This is a really informative summary! This website also does a great job explaining the merge! https://ethmerge.com
What are some alternatives?
portal-network-specs - Official repository for specifications for the Portal Network
argent-contracts-starknet - Argent accounts for Starknet
protocols - A zkRollup DEX & Payment Protocol
ethereum-org-website - Ethereum.org is a primary online resource for the Ethereum community.
pm - Project Management: Meeting notes and agenda items
dataunions - A monorepo containing Data Union SDK, smart contracts, and subgraphs
eth-gasnow-extention - GasNow extension for browser
ConsensusLayerWithdrawalProtection
annotated-spec - Vitalik's annotated eth2 spec. Not intended to be "the" annotated spec; other documents like Ben Edgington's https://benjaminion.xyz/eth2-annotated-spec/ also exist. This one is intended to focus more on design rationale.
casper - Casper contract, and related software and tests
crypto-fees - Website for comparing total daily fees of various blockchain protocols.