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(image of the Lennon Wall courtesy of IFMSA) As these notes were being written, Putin's senseless war in Ukraine left nobody untouched and Status is no exception: Our Ukrainian contributors have been forced into bomb shelters with their families as brutalities increase: here are several ways that you

image courtesy of Vitalik's endgame post Preface Ethereum can support both full nodes and light clients, it contains a peer to peer layer which allows nodes to send messages to each other. While Ethereum's current architecture is not particularly well-suited to light clients, the beacon chain

Preamble: energy and power The unit of energy we’ll use in this post is the kilowatt-hour (kWh). This quantity is called “one unit” on electricity bills, and it costs a domestic user about 12 cents in the US. When discussing power, we’ll use kilowatt-hours per day (kWh/d)

Note that Nimbus tends towards privacy by default making it harder for crawlers to detect it - nevertheless, the magnitude of the skewed client distribution in the above image still stands Last week we saw a small incident occur on the Beacon Chain (see here for a more complete write-up)

On Monday, Dean Eigenmann tweeted the following: validating will probably be way more niche than advertised, and most likely will be just as niche as running a miner. — Dean Eigenmann (@DeanEigenmann) July 6, 2020 While Dean's concern is a valid one, it rests on the assumption that specialised

What do the terms justification and finalization mean? How do they matter in the context of Ethereum 2.0?

A list of interesting things about Ethereum's next chapter that you may not have been aware of

What constitutes randomness in a blockchain? How is it achieved? What's RANDAO and what's VDF? Let's dive into blockchain chaos.

On April 1st, Status self-destructed. Here's what we learned in this daring experiment.

This post is part of the Two Point Oh collection explaining concepts in Ethereum 2.0, now known as Serenity. In this part, we'll talk about two parallel versions of ether and what that means. We recommend you read the Introduction to Validators and Introduction to Beacon Chain