Small announcement: I will be taking a secondary (more passive) role within Erigon and Ethereum core development for a while due to personal reasons. If anyone has any inquires, please talk to Andrew instead.
ETH at 4k$ is a nice accomplishment. However, there is still a lot of work to be done before we can do proper victory lapses imo.
Wallets still need to get better and the L1 still needs to scale. We are not even close being done.
eth_getProof archive format sneak peak.
100% of historical Ethereum mainnet proofs in 5 TB (+3.2 TB of data) vs 20 TB (Geth/Nethermind)
This is probably the most "difficult" problem I have worked on so far. not as impactful as other things I built but the solution to this
I don't do interviews. If anyone got any DMs from me, just so you know. I got hacked.
If I continue/keep spamming folks after this tweet. Please tell me
I really do not like the language used here.
XEN is a legitimate use of the chain like USDT/USDC is. the fact that it is a pain for the core devs to deal with just means we did not account for it.
How expensive of a parasite is XEN? i.e., if XEN behavior was not incentivized, and all negative externalities were removed, how much would it be worth?
Negative externalities like mkt cap, hardware cost (for ex on L1s and L2s), network sustainability, human time
As the guy who paved efficient Archive nodes (alongside Alexey). I really must congratulate @Gary_Rong for the PBSS archive node, quite an amazing feat to fit it into a such an important project like Geth.
We are going to also be releasing even smaller archive nodes + getProof