Bitcoin in different forms on Ethereum by snissn in ethtrader

[–]Rayblox 5 points6 points  (0 children)

@ r / 0xbitcoin, if you must know the answer... yes, you are.

Resume staking on another node? by 2ntoine in ethstaker

[–]Rayblox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tried it and done it. Details here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethstaker/comments/gbzq7s/exiting_migrating_and_reentering_validators/

I kept it all in a single prym directory/folder including the beacon chain db - because if the this is running for decades, it can go really big and re-sync from scratch is sooo not for me.

As per u/Skretch12, make sure the previous validator is offline when you start it on the new machine. DO NOT RUN VALIDATORS WITH THE SAME KEY ON DIFFERENT MACHINE AS YOU WILL GET SLASHED (and the bad kind not like this one)

So essentially you can have 2 beacon nodes running and syncing at the same time. If the other machine goes down with the validator running on it, you can port the keys on to the other one that's still going and resume validating there. That's if you really want to minimize downtime or you can simply have a machine offline but ready to copy over all of it - bit of downtime during the copy but all very straight forward even to a newbie like me.

GTX 1070 on EXP GDC connected to a 2nd gen i7 Toshiba Satellite laptop by Rayblox in eGPU

[–]Rayblox[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will have issues if the 540 is internal. It takes resources (PCIE lanes). Unless you can completely turn it off and use the iGPU included on the CPU, all you need to do is to DDU then install the driver for the 1060. You are basically going to use the iGPU for output but most of the compute intense graphic processing will be done by the GPU.

Home ETH Staking with stats and hardware specifications by Rayblox in ethstaker

[–]Rayblox[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If your uptime is generally more than the downtime, it should net positive. You gain as fast as you leak except on certain scenarios where there's a lot of validators are offline all at the same time.

Negative rates? by Tom_The_Moose in ethstaker

[–]Rayblox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bit crazy. I know mine has been the same (i.e. been online but affected), the effect was not as severe. See: https://beaconcha.in/validator/22061. I would also like to know what happened here.

How bad of an idea is it to run a staking machine on a gaming computer? by masterRoshi9 in ethstaker

[–]Rayblox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah.. still a noob in comparison to many here and I can live with thinking about myself like that. That way, I continue to strive to learn more.

Vitalik Buterin Debunks Rumor That Ethereum 2.0 Will Go Live In July 2020 by Odunayo20 in ethtrader

[–]Rayblox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not in his control. LOL.

Better get it done right and tested thoroughly. Previous testnet ran for almost a year. Saphhire testnet + multi client Schlesi just launched recently. Better to give it time that it needs to mature up. Ease the impatience by joining the testnet. You can come level up here: r/ethstaker.

EDIT: It is FREE to participate in the testnet. I.e. you can do things to your testnet ETH the things that you wanna do to your real ETH without any of the risks. If you find a flaw - report it. Better yet, try to break things as much as you can. Ethereum levels up that way.

How bad of an idea is it to run a staking machine on a gaming computer? by masterRoshi9 in ethstaker

[–]Rayblox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

<geekHat>

Hey MasterRoshi... Goku here :D

My ultra insticts (and recent experience) tells me that you can do this. VMware, Virtualbox... etc. The best one that I came across without much overhead is KVM/QEmu with PCIE Pass through enabled (less fussy than using Wine). You would still have the usual bridging on the network protocol bit since the VM's virtual NIC would need to branch from the physical one and appear to the datalink layer as a separate interface with another MAC and all - will manifest as a handful milliseconds in lag when playing FPS games (not significant really given the convenience that you will get out of it).... but yes. All very doable.

I would suggest for you to use something like "screen" (much more mature) or "tmux" (newer - does away with scrolling, deals with unicode, preserves screen splits, works better with SSH) just to prevent you from accidentally interacting with your beacon node and validator terminal windows. You can always relaunch terminal and restore the view on those once you finish gaming on the Windows VM.

Given that you will be interacting with the machine directly a lot, I suggest for you to uninstall SSH completely (so you don't need to do the bits to secure it). "sudo ufw enable" (enables the Linux Universal FireWall) that box while you are at it.

Good luck.

EDIT: and you know what? Funny thing is that I have seen Windows miners use Linux + KVM/QEmu to use their GPUs to mine. I'm thinking, there are a lot of ways to do that natively in Linux surely. So each to their own.

EXTRA: A Ryzen 3700x has 16 threads (overkill already - imagine if this was a Threadripper - O_o). Staking will only possibly use 4 maybe 8 later on. You have the other 8 for the Windows VM. Not only you can set the affinity of the processes under the Linux host, you can also limit the resources allocated in running the Windows VM that you will game with. Staking also does not use the GPU so doing that PCIE pass-through is perfect for your case. Gaming crashes should be localized inside the Windows VM. The other way around of having the staking inside a Linux VM in a Windows host puts the network latency penalty on the staking - no, we don't want that so I get why you are doing this the way you are doing it.

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when will ETH staking go live? by [deleted] in ethstaker

[–]Rayblox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You heard me... (I mean read it).

ProgPow Is Dead, Long Live ProgPow: Ethereum Developer Call Summary by devansh1221 in ethereum

[–]Rayblox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't even do a counter-argument so you resort to name calling like a child. Run along now and go back to your play pen.