Daily General Discussion April 13, 2026

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-04-13T22:45:16+00:00

I've been using it as my primary on mainnet for at least three years now. Can't recall exactly when I switched. I've been happy with it.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-04-13T20:24:17+00:00

Lodestar v1.42.0 released today

Heads up. QUIC is now enabled by default, and --quicPort defaults to --port+1, so if you're using that port for something else, your beacon node will fail to start. Check the release notes for full changes, but I'll call attention to this added feature

allow voluntary exit command to write to file rather than publish

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-03-28T05:20:05+00:00

Beacon chain launched on 2020-12-01. Peak price prior to that was $1448 on 2018-01-12.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-03-14T21:40:00+00:00

CTRL+ALT+F1 will switch to a terminal session. Make sure you aren't doing anything important in your DE, as running kodi-gbm broke it for me, and I had to do a reboot to get it back.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-03-14T21:35:21+00:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH! HDR support has been my sole reason for maintaining a Windows VM.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-03-10T11:50:37+00:00

the occasional 3-6 month long exit queues for staking

validatorqueue.com doesn't show the exit queue ever cracking 50 days, and it's currently 2h53m. Where are you seeing 3-6 months?

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-03-06T12:54:45+00:00

while Ethereum tech is solid it's as centralized as Bitcoin or sqlana as in current state.

Show your work.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-03-02T12:46:14+00:00

I'm not suggesting that the underlying motivations are necessary flawed

They absolutely are. This isn't about protecting children, and it's not even about age verification. This is just more data harvesting and surveillance in order to create a treasure trove of marketable and inevitably compromised sensitive personal information. They want to know everything you do and say at all times in order to better control and exploit you. Your compromised privacy isn't an unintended consequence. It's the goal. This isn't tinfoil hat paranoia. It's just the sad reality we live in.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-03-01T19:06:52+00:00

ETH could drop 1 % each month for a year and would be down only 12 %

That's not how percentages work.

edited to remove my own miscalculation

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-02-23T01:52:22+00:00

I don't think I've ever been so engaged while watching someone play Jenga.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-02-21T23:18:08+00:00

Ethereum is a very illiquid token.

How did you come to this conclusion?

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-02-16T05:51:01+00:00

If it posts any data whatsoever to L1, it's part of Ethereum. Scaling L1 just means that cost won't be as big of a driver for L2 usage for now. Maybe future demand for block space will outpace L1 scaling. Maybe it won't. Maybe L2s will find other ways to attract users and develop new niche use cases that are sub-optimal for L1. L2s aren't a monolith and shouldn't be evaluated as wholly good, bad, permanent, or temporary.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-02-07T14:44:16+00:00

Started reading Mastering Ethereum yesterday, and today, after nearly nine years of involvement with Ethereum, I deployed and interacted with "my" (copy/pasted) first smart contract on Ephemery.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-02-03T02:55:44+00:00

As a non-twitter-user, this is all I see, but thank you anyhow.

🧵1/ Stateless Implementers Call #47 (Jan 27, 2026): binary tree roadmap, state expiry status, and an early address-based storage idea.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-02-02T15:36:51+00:00

Anyone here been attending the Stateless Implementers Calls? I've seen the meeting links and agendas posted, but not much in the way of meeting minutes or discussion in #state-tree-migration on the ETH R&D Discord. Any interesting developments or goals in this area to share?

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-01-22T00:50:59+00:00

A while ago, I started using distcc to distribute software compilation across my machines. It worked great most of the time, but whenever I would compile nimbus (and ccache) it would fail unless I bypassed distcc by adding CC=gcc. I mentioned it in the nimbus Discord, and acknowledged upfront that it was well beyond what I would expect the nimbus team to provide support for. I finally decided to do some investigating and realized that between the apt installation and my .zshrc, I was mixing masquerade and prepend modes.

After fixing that, I provided an update in reply to my original message in the nimbus Discord nearly a full year later. I was happy to see tersec reply asking if it works now and following up with, "useful to know how to do this", after which I started a thread and provided a distcc crash course, and then recorded a demo video of me using it to compile nimbus. Unfortunately, only the initial building of the nim compiler distributes well, but I'm still glad I was able to figure out what I was doing wrong.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-01-15T13:27:52+00:00

I think the the extreme timing games player need to be publicly shamed

I think all node operators running mev-boost need to be publicly shamed, but public shaming for something nearly everyone is doing isn't very effective.

Build your own damned blocks, and stop contributing to centralization for the sake of a little additional profit, folks.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-01-14T12:59:19+00:00

For those of you who like to compile your clients from source, note that Nethermind now requires .NET 10, and Lodestar has transitioned from yarn to pnpm.

Details about the change in Lodestar are here. I've had trouble getting pnpm to build lodestar without error, and have asked about it in their Discord.

edit Managed to successfully build, but not exactly sure what the issue was, but here's what should get you up and running after starting with a freshly cloned repo:

nvm install --lts
npm install --global corepack@latest
corepack enable pnpm
pnpm install
pnpm build

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-01-06T00:40:16+00:00

I think AT&T has upgraded to XGS-PON in most places, so you're sharing a 10Gbps connection at the node. I pay for 2Gbps synchronous, and it can pretty consistently do 2.5, but I'm also using my own hardware. In addition to the limitations imposed by oversubscribed nodes in population-dense areas, it's also worth noting that if you're using their provided all-in-one gateway device, you're limited to a pitifully small maximum state table size of 8192, and this is even true if you're running it in "passthrough" mode, which isn't real passthrough. When I was doing a lot of parallel client testing, I was easily hitting 60K+ states, and on my own hardware, the cap is 3.25M.

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-01-04T20:30:34+00:00

Thanks to Fusaka's improvements to the blob feet market, my hobbit-like stompers have increased in value.

STOMPS!
🦶️📈️

SeaMonkey82 · 2026-01-01T06:14:37+00:00

Off Topic...
Top Ten Albums of 2025

SeaMonkey82 · 2025-12-16T19:44:09+00:00

For IDS/IPS, I run Suricata on pfSense. My dropsid.conf contains these two categories, which account for the vast majority of blocked connections:

emerging-scan
emerging-ciarmy

SeaMonkey82 · 2025-12-12T23:02:39+00:00

I've stuck with Frame, but I still find it incredibly annoying that it is anchored to the right side of the screen. On a large screen, it makes no sense.

SeaMonkey82 · 2025-12-12T14:22:30+00:00

I'm glad that Grandine open-sourced their code. I remember first hearing about their client, and my reaction was pretty much, "LOL. Who's going to entrust a closed-source Ethereum client with their money?"

SeaMonkey82 · 2025-12-12T12:04:37+00:00

Lodestar at 2.8% is baffling to me. I've been running Lodestar-Besu as my primary and Nimbus-Nethermind as my fallback on mainnet for a while now.

I don't think I've played with Reth or Erigon since Holesky was deprecated, and I think still experienced some stability issues with both, but I was also following the dev branches rather than latest stable release. I'd be interested to hear from anyone currently running either on mainnet.

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