solana-pay VS lighthouse

Probably start here https://solanapay.com/

Solana Pay

Is there no Ethereum equivalent of Solana Pay?

With Solana pay merchants will save the ~3% charged by payment processors. https://solanapay.com/

That is where CandyPay comes in. CandyPay lets you create NFTs with a no-code builder and also lets users easily claim them via Solana Pay on mobile without worrying about installing any browser extension or connecting their wallet.

Solana is undoubtedly one of the most innovative blockchain projects in the entire Web3 industry. You can make your own judgments on the recent exploit, previous slowdowns and other issues. But you cannot deny how fast the infrastructure is being built out. Just in the past few months, Solana has announced three groundbreaking pieces of news — the opening of a physical store called Solana Spaces, a new mobile phone platform with its own mobile stack that operates Solana based dApps and Solana Pay. These blockchain and IRL applications are major landmarks in the development and future adoption of Web3 technology. We will have extensive research on all of the latest Solana releases. Starting with this blog, which will focus on Solana Pay. Read on to understand how it works and how you can implement it right now, for free!

Solana launched a cringe merch store but you can't use their payments system they themselves describe as "the digital commerce revolution", it's either credit card or PayPal:

I was very excited about Solana Pay[0] when it dropped last year, but it doesn't seem to have gotten much traction.

0. https://solanapay.com/

Commencing this tutorial will require us to clone Solana pay’s Github repository. You can choose to download it as a zip file from the official repository or run the command below in a terminal on vscode:

Solana Pay: Solana Pay is an open and free-to-use payments framework. It is a direct merchant-to-client system that utilizes Solana's speed and low transaction fee while also being energy efficient. It claims to be the potential “Visa of the Blockchain ecosystem”.

Lighthouse — an Ethereum consensus client (written in Rust);

Daily Goerli: A whole lot more detail on the lighthouse db corruption issue I posted about previously. There's a warning that's been quite frequent on my erigon nodes for a while that doesn't seem to have any impact on its performance. I asked if it should be downgraded to INFO here.

According to lighthouse team, the root cause was beacon node waited too long before requesting the payload header. All details here : https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/issues/4312

Update LH to 4.0.2-rc.0 More info here https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/tag/v4.0.2-rc.0

Which is not true... full nodes are consuming a lot of CPU now... hot-fix was released, but didn't solve the problem completely: https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/tag/v4.0.2-rc.0 ... more hot-fixes will be needed

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