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Ethereum operates under a permissionless proof-of-stake model, it has not been mineable since the Merge in 2022. There are obviously large staking pools (including decentralized po…

The names of SpaceX’s drone ships, such as “Of Course I Still Love You”, are from the Culture novels

The minimum staking amount is very close to zero. Of course, directly participating in consensus by having the opportunity of building blocks requires 32 ETH (≈$75k), or 16/8 ETH (…

Exactly. Even the transaction costs aren't great: "Actual transaction costs are estimated around 0.001 cent/tx (at high transaction rates, amortized over billions of transactions, …

Ethereum's clients (execution and consensus) are only really concerned about a sufficiently fast SSD, more specifically in terms of random IO. Any mid-tier SSD should work though: …

Ethereum could in theory be powered by a single 6 MW wind turbine

I have a major soft spot for Transmission, congrats!

I do overnight oats; in the morning, all you have to do is pop the lid. * Wholegrain oats (1.5 to 2 dl) * Greek yogurt (1.5 to 2 dl) * Milk, skimmed/whole (3 dl) Then, throw in wha…

And $0.26 in transaction fees, $0.04 of which went to the block proposing validator

Mev-boost, a piece of software that consensus clients delegate their block building to, is currently being used on mainnet. The difference is that there can be multiple block build…

APY depends on the current validator count, decreasing as more validators come online. Currently, the base APY is around 4 %. On top of that, you have to factor in luck: block prop…

Because stable currencies do not exist in the world of cryptos? Dai [1], Rai [2], and USDC [3] are some examples that are all stable, and all dramatically different from each other…

>A CBDC will eliminate any argument for crypto So a US CBDC will be decentralized, permissionless, transparent, non-censoring, and run on open-source software based on an open spec…

How come? There's no speculation in stablecoins, USD-following or not. Especially if you transact on a layer-2 solution, it's quite convenient.

You can stake on a Raspberry Pi and an external SSD, if you hate yourself enough. Most home stakers run on micro-PCs like Intel NUCs or Optiplex Micros. Attestations occur for ever…

The validator that proposes the block with the slashing in it gets a small reward, while the rest is burnt. There are dedicated slashers on the network that observe attestations an…

Block times become exactly 12 seconds, that's it. Nothing else changes: it's the same Ethereum, just greener and very slightly faster!

The current estimate for the upgrade can be found at [1]. It's not a regular upgrade that happens at a specific block height, hence the variance. Instead, the consensus is flipped …

Because not attesting is against the network's fork-choice rules. If that censoring majority chooses to avoid said block, because it contains transactions that should be censored, …

You are wrong about the majority of validators having to approve a certain transaction for them to be included. Even if 80 % of the network were censoring, those transactions would…

I don't disagree. However, I see no reason why light clients would not become the default option, as they effectively remove the trust placed on an RPC provider.

Not to mention, a new groundwork for light clients was laid out in the first upgrade to the beacon chain. Come merge, clients could effectively poll for e.g. balances directly from…

There's a massive difference in the decentralization of Ethereum's PoS implementation vs. Cardano, which uses delegated PoS.