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https://nitter.net/vdWijden/status/1437712249926393858

>Someone unsuccessfully tried to attack #ethereum today by publishing a long (~550) blocks which contained invalid pow's. Only a small percentage of @nethermindeth nodes switched to this invalid chain. All other clients rejected the long sidechain as invalid

>The chain has been overtaken in length by the good chain now, and should be overtaken in difficulty soon. Also looks like the attacker is not mining further on his published invalid chain. Another great demonstration of how client diversity makes #ethereum stronger.

In the replies:

Q:

>any clues on why the nethermind nodes accepted the invalid chain? Does invalid here mean "did not meet the difficulty target"? "Did not correspond to a valid headerchain"? Something else?

A:

>Did not meet the difficulty target. Seems nethermind only checks every 1024' header for PoW during some sync modes (we do something similar in fast sync, but randomize the locations where we check the pow, and check all at the head of the chain)

Thank fuck for client diversity!

Also, it took me literally 1 minute to transcribe those tweets. Y'all need to up your game. Save everyone else the extra effort and unnecessary tracking browser cookies. ;P

The merge is obviously the biggest upgrade coming down the pipe in terms of impact, but I'd just like to share some of my enthusiasm for other big upgrades like Verkle trees, statelessness, and state expiry. These are massive improvements on the underlying node structure and will even have a positive impact on the gas costs for certain contracts by making it more efficient to access certain data.

I'm talking like, have-a-node-on-your-phone levels of client improvement here. No need to rely on Infura when you can just send transactions out using a light client built into your wallet.

I don't understand half of the data science and math behind it but this stuff sounds incredible.

Latest project building a zkEVM rollup: https://hackmd.io/@yezhang/S1_KMMbGt. Interestingly, this is the first look at Ethereum's possible future zkEVM upgrade. Everyone thought it was 5-10 years away, but clearly zk tech is advancing exponentially.

https://nitter.net/RaoulGMI/status/1347013567799848961#m

Raoul just made a banger of a Twitter thread. Well worth the read. And the best part is...he calls for $20k+ ETH.

Those of us predicting $20k+ eth this cycle is growing!

It might seem impossible to most but, in my opinion, it's the only possible outcome for this cycle. That twitter thread verbalizes my thought process as to why 20k is possible and probable.

And when I say $20k, I mostly mean a quick touch to $20k at the peak. 20k at 2021 EoY, rest of this year will be steady growth up to the promised land...barring any shenanigans in the "real world" of course.

https://nitter.net/AutismCapital/status/1328393569070063616

> Alpha leak: Citibank has suggested the dollar will decrease by 20% in 2021 and Bitcoin could see $300k+. Now why would they publish this report? Because their bags are packed and they’re ready to GO. They’re done accumulating. This is now the BANKER shill pump. Hold on tight. Rocket

One of the major themes at EthCC was discussions about the imminent multi-chain world (rollups are chains) and how to make them work together seamlessly.

Here's a shortlist of projects that are currently working on this: Biconomy, pNetwork, Celo, Celer, Connext, Hop, Chainbridge, Witnet.

The State of 1559 - Update 007

> TL;DR 📝

> Large state testing is 99% done, expect a write-up soon 🔜

> EIP-1559 has been updated to be Berlin-compatible 🇩🇪

> We’ll be proposing EIP-1559 for inclusion in the London Hard Fork during the next AllCoreDevs call 🇬🇧 > Note: this doesn’t guarantee a decison will be made on the next call, or that it will be accepted!

> Miners are pushing back against EIP-1559 and others are pushing back against the pushback: lots of new write ups from both sides, and a community call is planned for this Friday ⛏

> A few bonus posts that were too good to ignore are linked at the end of this update 👇🏻

After delving into u/lawfultots post, I found a post by Tim Beiko that goes into depth on the architecture of the clients as the merge will occur.

It seems that all hands are on deck for the Merge, with single-minded focus on getting it done. I'm damned excited by what I see.

Seeing people like Mark Cuban speaking in this tone about crypto is kinda satisfying.

https://nitter.net/mcuban/status/1348663730712834056 > > Watching the cryptos trade, it’s EXACTLY like the internet stock bubble. EXACTLY. I think btc, eth , a few others will be analogous to those that were built during the dot-com era, survived the bubble bursting and thrived, like AMZN, EBay, and Priceline. Many won’t > > > > > Along the way MANY fortunes will be made and LOST and we find out who has the stomach to HODL and who doesn’t. My advice ? Learn how to hedge. > > As during the dot-com bubble “the experts” try to justify whatever the pricing of the day is. Crypto , much like gold , is a supply and demand driven All the narratives about debasement, fiat, etc are just sales pitches. The biggest sales pitch is scarcity vs demand. That’s it

https://nitter.net/TrustNodes/status/1330164476767834122

> Bitcoin Suisse to Deposit Nearly 100,000 ETH to Ethereum 2.0

https://www.trustnodes.com/2020/11/21/bitcoin-suisse-to-deposit-nearly-100000-eth-to-ethereum-2-0

I recieved my copy of The Infinite Machine today and have to say, this book is an absolute joy to read. It encapsulates my whole philosophy and zealous belief in the future of Ethereum in one book. Camilla Russo knocked it out of the park here.

Anybody who reads this should become an instant convert. I just wish she put a little note at the end.

"Would you like to know more? r/ethfinance"

One of us! One of us!

Updated from tweet posted earlier today:

https://nitter.net/AlexSaundersAU/status/1349865093761122305 > > Exchanges could be out of $ETH within 48 hours. Demand has sky rocketed. Exchange reserves fell 20% from 10M to 8M in the last few hours. With targets of $5k, $10k & $20k long term, I doubt many HODLers will sell their ETH in the $1-2k range. Globe with meridiansDesktop computerExtraterrestrial alien #ETH2 #DeFi #NFTs #Gaming #DAO

https://nitter.net/loopringorg/status/1349427566319456264

> One of our most requested features is live: > > Left right arrow L2 to L1 transfers! Left right arrow > > Send from your Loopring L2 account to ANY Ethereum L1. No more needing the recipient to already be on L2 Fire > > Important for Layer-2 adoption Water wave > > Currently enabled in the Loopring wallet only, not web.

I'm curious how this would look in transaction history, does this sort of thing obfuscate?

Hey folks, happy Sunday. I spent the week going through the feedback I received on my previous v0.01 document on the EthFinance DAO idea. Changelog is on top if you want to skim for the new changes.

https://hackmd.io/Phr_H1yPQK6_cIQBXXEDQw

Once we get everything mostly nailed down, I'll make a new top-level post and start building!

https://nitter.net/RaoulGMI/status/1334299936800825344

> When the CEO of Blackrock knows the EXACT number of website hits about Rick Rieders interview where he mentioned bitcoin (in passing), shows it wasn't a mistake but a test. They are monitoring this at the highest level to get involved. He knows and sees there is huge demand.

https://nitter.net/msantoriESQ/status/1329898854242603012

> 1/ Police cars revolving light BREAKING: US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency proposes rule prohibiting large banks from discriminating against "legal but disfavored" customers like oil & gas biz, independent ATM operators and of course... > > crypto companies.

I FUCKING finally have the answer as to why my validators were missing some attestations every day.

It has nothing to do with my setup. My setup has been running flawlessly since genesis.

I have missed a block pre 1024 and a few attestations until today due to client issues. (The block issue was a Prysm only issue, the attestations are all clients).

@potuz on /r/ethstaker discord just informed me that there is an issue with slots that are divisible by 32.

>Validators that are assigned the first slot of an epoch to attest are 20% likely to vote incorrectly on it. On each epoch a validator has 1/32 chances of attesting on this epoch, and a bad vote penalizes the validator for both head and target in this case. This accounts for at least (assuming perfect inclusion distance and a good vote on source) 0.65% of the validator rewards.

More info here.

Tagging /u/superphiz as he also tried to help me with this issue but we just let it go due to number of missed attestations being <1%/day.

A quick reminder to buy or at least HODL when others are fearful.

We're in an "extreme fear" phase. This is when fortunes saree made or lost. Keep the faith and just focus on six months time.

https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/?daily_hash=13e97d546a66be97e1a66debb948c8160d797d2d

flashbots post-1559:
https://hackmd.io/@flashbots/MEV-1559

interesting take aways:
* 1559 means no zero gas cost mev transactions anymore. base fee must be paid.
* pricing is likely going to change to account for transactions that don't care about execution order, but just want frontrunning protection.

Raoul Pal has joined the moonboi club:

https://nitter.net/RaoulGMI/status/1349898250652966913

> By the way, ETH is up 60% in the first 14 days of the year. I think it outperforms all year but I still own much more BTC but have been adding to ETH. Next stop will be higher risk alts.... but much much smaller. More risk = smaller size. > > ----------------------------------------- > Ayline > @Ayline_jess > · > 8h > Replying to > @RaoulGMI > > what's your price prediction for eth? > > ---------------------------- > Raoul Pal > @RaoulGMI > · > 8h > > $20k

https://nitter.net/evan_van_ness/status/1330240872416423937

> AirBnB thinking about how it tokenizes itself? Thinking face > > "Our future success will also depend on our ability to adapt to emerging technologies such as tokenization, cryptocurrencies..." - > @Airbnb > in IPO paperwork to SEC > > https://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1559720/000119312520294801/d81668ds1.htm

Pretty fascinating watching the progress on the merge happening between the various execution layer and consensus layer client teams

https://hackmd.io/@tvanepps/amphora-milestones

Does anyone know why there's no update from Erigon?

I would highly recommend catching up with these two weekly informational resources:

https://weekinethereumnews.com/week-in-ethereum-news-july-19-2020/

https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/eth2_news

Both are phenomenal in their own right. Go as far back as you want/need.

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To answer your specific question, the final multi-client testnet is launching Aug. 4. Launch is estimated for Oct or Nov if all goes well. Otherwise likely Q1 2021 if unforeseen issues/bugs are found.

Imo, this pump is a mixture of so many factors. It’s not just related to eth2 news. It’s TA related. It’s ratio related. It’s fundamentals related. Adoption news related. If you’ve been out of the loop, sit down and invest some time in catching up. It’s worth getting the fuller picture.

Some of the many bits of news that recently came out include:

• PayPal rumored to be offering crypto services soon.
• Banks given green light to hold crypto on behalf of customers (which will lead to so many products and marketing for crypto its insane).
• Baseline adoption and progress with EY/Microsoft/Google/Fedex/etc etc etc is really coming together and taking off.
• Reddit creating a L2 solution to onboard its 400M+ monthly users to Ethereum (giving them an Ethereum wallet inside Reddit).
• Visa confirming that it has been substantially researching blockchain, and that they’re going to be issuing stablecoins on Ethereum.

Much of this news happened this week, but other ones are a bit older. Either way, this run was long overdue.

https://nitter.net/technocrypto/status/1334978194882129921

> We hit 99% participation for epoch 740 of the #eth #beaconchain. > NINETY-NINE PERCENT!!! > This means that out of 23,835 eligible validators only 234 failed to attest to this epoch. > > That is an amazing thing to see! Well done node operators!! This is so much better than I expected. > 4:49 PM · Dec 4, 2020·Twitter for Android > 7 > Retweets > 2 > Quote Tweets > 38 > Likes > Tip > Jeff Coleman | Jeff.eth > @technocrypto > · > 40m > Replying to > @technocrypto > So what? Well right now this means that we are getting ~13M USD worth of attestations on every single block. Call it a budget of 10M USD (conservatively) to fake 2 typical block confirmations on the beaconchain. Take that PoW!!

https://nitter.net/QwQiao/status/1329041078188707841

> “The Bitcoin ecosystem ranging from infrastructure and development to investment has improved dramatically compared to 2017.” - China’s state media

> > Bullish AF.

Link to video: https://twitter.com/i/status/1328893927986872320

The important thing is, as Danny reported on this week’s devs’ call, that the audit is going well, results are expected next week, and then we can “pull the trigger on everything". https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/eth2_news/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2F%40benjaminion%2Fwnie2_201031

Not sure if this has been posted here before, but from today's dev call: >Progress on Blst audit? Expect final feedback next week, and can then “pull the trigger on everything”.

Source: https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/BJOIcBd_w

Right now there are 3074 unique addresses that deposited to the deposit contract. That’s probably a little higher than the actual number of people validating because some could have used multiple addresses, but it’s a decent enough proxy.

Let’s say the average staker is a 32 year old male. He has a 0.00196 probability of dying within a year.

0.00196 * 3074 * 4/365 = 0.066, which means that only 0.066 of a staker has died since Monday. That happens to be the exact portion of staker soul that has been squeezed out of existence by the drop in ETH price after the successful beacon chain launch.

https://nitter.net/michael_saylor/status/1352614708797464582

> MicroStrategy has purchased approximately 314 bitcoins for $10.0 million in cash in accordance with its Treasury Reserve Policy, at an average price of approximately $31,808 per bitcoin. We now hold approximately 70,784 bitcoins.

https://nitter.net/CL207/status/1351529493475725312

> what happens to ETH market is a must watch even if you're not interested in cryptocurrency at all. > > A record amount of derivatives $ is betting further breakout and can go both ways, either continued longing / mooning into low spot liquidity or a record long liquidation day

What the hell did they do to my boi cryptowat.ch ...

The page with all the small charts sorted by volume was an idea dashboard for a high level view of recent movements in the blockchain space, now it's gone.

https://nitter.net/lawmaster/status/1348220777498353665

> In my opinion, this still remains one of the best indicators of retail participation. Still only 30% to what it was in 2017 but clear uptick is there in the recent weeks. Follow these numbers closely in the coming weeks https://nitter.net/pic/media%2FErXXhciXMAEVD_4.jpg%3Fname%3Dsmall

https://nitter.net/zhusu/status/1330839624013385730

> United Overseas Bank (UOB), a top3 bank in Singapore and SEA, hiring for a Crypto Security Administrator. Rocket > > The herd is coming. > > https://careers.uobgroup.com/job/Alexandra-VP%2C-Crypto-Security-Administrator-%2C-Group-Information-Security-Sing/572364210/

Eth2 devs call notes (not mine): https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/B1wRBDWdd

Not really anything juicy aside from the Altair upgrade might be creeping into August now. I don't think that's a big concern as work on London and The Merge is separate. Same client teams though, so they wouldnt want it to delay for much further as Merge will be being tested.

So i've just come off the PoolTogether community call and found out about the Polygon pod tokens 'liquidity bridge' feature and my mind is fucking blown. As self professed by Brendan (lead dev of PT) though, this is pretty experimental.

But why is this cool?

There is now a token on Polygon (sidechain / commit chain), that provides direct access to the liquidity in a mainnet ethereum contract. Whaaaaa?!? I didnt know this was a thing! You can own a Pod share on polygon and be eligible for the mainnet reward if the Pool draws the pod as its weekly winner. Without ever having to touch Ethereum.

This is what we have been waiting for. Ethereum mainnet and L2s/sidechains will meld together and interlink through the power of tokens and their contracts. I used to think of mainnet and the L2s as completely separate entities. "You have tokens on Ethereum and you have 'equivalent' tokens on the L2s, and you need to bridge them."

To an extent this will be true. But what PoolTogether Pod tokens are demonstrating is that you can have a token that is specifically designed to be its own bridge into mainnet liquidity. 🤯

Reposting my comment earlier about the ETHFinance DAO update as I posted it right before the daily closed yesterday. There's a changelog at the top for the sections I clarified and changed.

https://hackmd.io/Phr_H1yPQK6_cIQBXXEDQw

Appreciate your feedback, everyone!

All these job announcements, I guess crypto is dead.

https://nitter.net/UniswapProtocol/status/1346573190940782592

> Globe with meridians Do you want to help build the future of decentralized finance? > > Keycap digit fourThe Uniswap dev team is hiring for 4 engineering roles! > > Unicorn face Senior Frontend Engineer > Unicorn face Smart Contract Engineer > Unicorn face Full Stack Engineer > Unicorn face Software Engineer Intern

Almost halfway trough "The Infinite Machine". Great book ...a must read for every ETH fan.

Get this book !!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X8HS2WC/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_48QdFb4WVNMKG

(not an aff.. link)

If you're a Windows user and you're finding yourself neck deep in Ethereum, I'd encourage you to slowly begin adding some linux skills. The easiest way to begin this journey is by installing virtualbox on Windows, and then creating an ubuntu 20.04 desktop virtual machine. Just play with it every day for a few minutes. Don't force yourself, but just by getting your feet wet you're going to slowly become more aware of ways you can engage with Ethereum projects.

https://nitter.net/RaoulGMI/status/1351974798532833282

> haha...working on getting Stan round to ETH...

In response to:

https://nitter.net/RyanSAdams/status/1351909970967752708 > > First it was > @RaoulGMI > and now I find out > @fundstrat > is more ETH bullish than me? > > What's next...a Stanley Druckenmiller call for 30k ETH?

https://nitter.net/woonomic/status/1346827893322616833

> Latest buying has been driven by participants who are long term holders. This is bullish, this rally is far from done. > > This is the change in #Bitcoin's supply moving between participants. When more coins move from liquid (active traders) to the illiquid (HODLers), it's bullish.

https://nitter.net/woonomic/status/1346797291668029440

> This rally is warm but not yet overheated. > > This is how much "speculative premium" we have right now compared to a similar phases of the prior 2 bull markets.

https://i.imgur.com/2SWzgqt.png

https://hackmd.io/@tvanepps/amphora-milestones

That is a lot of green.

Soon~~™~~

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Edit: turns out you can't strikethrough a tm. Bearish /s

"We’re almost there! A v1.0 release candidate beacon chain spec is in the works. I believe the deposit contract deployment to be days, not weeks, away. And beacon chain genesis weeks, not months, after that."

https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/eth2_news/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2F%40benjaminion%2Fwnie2_201002

That's what's up.

I believe that the future of multichain world is probably not that bright as many people think but not due to bridges but because every chain is more of the same.

BSC Polygon Avax Harmony Fantom Near Celo Xdai etc. Just look at how the market has been flooded with tens of EVM chains already.

What's the point of using to say Harmony over Avax ?? I don't know. From user's perspective, i don't see any difference.

The "Google for blockchains", Blockchair, is projecting that the deposit goal will be achieved by 2nd December 2020. With all their knowledge and data they are actually using a straight line to fit the deposit projection ... TAish style!

I've always loved Cryptowatch's dashboard but after weeks of them not fixing the "price randomly jumps all the time" bug, I'm fed up.

Time to say goodbye.

Do you know of any other service that displays the information in a similar manner?

non-ETH related but little flashdump / possible fat finger on DOTUSD Kraken https://cryptowat.ch/charts/KRAKEN:DOT-USD?period=1h

This has been trending down gently today, also its ETH ratio. I know quite a few are hedged into it, so be aware. full disclosure I'm 3x short DOT/ETH.

https://nitter.net/eliasimos/status/1351495911483056131

> $ETH addresses keep growing and growing–and notice how DeFi summer was an inflection point! > > Everybody wants a piece of the action.

https://nitter.net/intotheblock/status/1348610707143725059

> There are more addresses profiting from their $ETH positions (47.09 million) than the aggregate number of holders (addresses with a balance) in the Bitcoin Blockchain (33.79 million). > > At the current price, 91.8% of the addresses holding ETH are experiencing profits.

Not sure this made it to the daily yesterday. Am now looking for follow on.

https://nitter.net/RaoulGMI/status/1347013567799848961

> Crypto Bomb: > > Ok, I'm leaking some GMI early... (not published yet - tomorrow a.m.) > > I will eventually publish in Real Vision too (this article only). I push back strongly the Pfeffer view and the "shitcoin" view. > > It's all Metcalfe's Law, baby... and ETH = BTC, like it or not.

Alright, so apparently some of you people voted for DeFi Saver as the defi app with best UI/UX out there in the DeFi Pulse yearly survey (twitter / nitter). You guys!!!!

Happy New Year from all eight of us on the DeFi Saver team. May all your longs be extra long in 2021!

For the merge spec implementation milestones, will there be a custom testnet built for testing/fuzzing, before the actual merge event?

Or would the long loved devnets described in m5 be the final testing phase before going live?

https://hackmd.io/@tvanepps/amphora-milestones

October is not realistic. Q1 2022 is possible. Continuing to quote an early and overly optimistic date as a release date is going to cause strife when it doesn't happen by then.

Lets skip the inevitable "delay" drama and start quoting what the people doing the merge work are estimating.

E.g.: https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/eth2_news/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2F%40benjaminion%2Fwnie2_210522

https://youtu.be/XW0QZmtbjvs?t=5690

In mid 2017 I bought a dolphin hat...

https://www.amazon.com/Multicolor-Halloween-Festival-Creative-Stereoscopic/dp/B01IT7SLMY

... to celebrate the flippening and was worried it wouldn't arrive in time.

Argent did really well on the product hunt rankings today:

https://www.producthunt.com

It’s neck and neck for the top spot. I’m just glad to see a crypto project that works and is easy to use out in the wild.

https://nitter.net/KRMA_0/status/1365272261201117189

> Environmental things to consider today > > Miners inflow to exchanges over 24h: 15,270 BTC > > Exchanges outflow (accumulation): 24h: 503BTC; 7 Days: 24,224BTC > > So far it looks like great absorption/stagnation > > In 4 hours we will have mass expirations BTC Options 4PM GMT (CME, Deribit)

https://nitter.net/spencernoon/status/1354811686960603141 > > Institutions are coming to the conclusion that the best risk-adjusted way to get #DeFi exposure is to hold $ETH > 10:20 AM · Jan 28, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

https://nitter.net/whale_alert/status/1351575013334376449

> 400,000,000 #USDT (400,671,924 USD) minted at Tether Treasury > > Tx: https://whale-alert.io/transaction/tron/beb341d45e8efcab4d8e20b8e6312b46d6da7b2a2e06a375b55d8c8f716fe2c6

> What networks is V4 launching on?

> Currently Ethereum and Polygon(MATIC). After that it's planned to other EVM compatible blockchains, such as Avalanche, Arbitrum, Celo, Optimistic, Binance Smart Chain, and more.

> What is the main difference to V3?

> A single prize pool across all chains

> Pool Together is actually the first dApp with a true cross-chain functionality. The pools are no more limited to the interest earned on one chain, but will benefit from yield generated on all chains combined.

holy shit. my mind is officially blown. hit me up when there's a L2 ethfinance pod for us to join!

Warning: Book Review

I finished the new book The Infinite Machine (or on Amazon) by Camila Russo. In short, this is a book on the history of Ethereum. The writing is excellent, and the story seems to be pretty complete. There were a lot of things I didn't remember and it was good to learn those, and it was good to be refreshed about the parts I did remember.

A couple of things struck me. First, just how much the founders risked to get this thing off the ground. These were people who had a vision and risked everything for it. And I love how they made it seem like it wasn't optional -- they knew this was their chance to change the world and they couldn't walk away.

The second thing that struck me is how so much of it is obvious in retrospect. To me, the concept of Ethereum was obvious from the first time I read about it, from the first time I saw Vitalik speak. But there were doubters everywhere. And in retrospect, it's obvious how overpriced everything was in the second half of 2017 into early 2018.

I saw those warning signs at the time and wrote them off as "oh, that's just the exception". I thought $2000, $3000, $5000 was inevitable, and soon. All the failures, all those scams, they were just blips, right? But I think some part of me knew. The problem is those signs were there at $400 on the way up, why believe them at $800 or $1200?

Anyway, whether you've been here since the start and want to relive the experience and renew your confidence in this space, or whether you are new and want to catch up and know about the history, this is a great book for that.

https://nitter.net/whale_alert/status/1355120794507091968

500,000,000 #USDT (496,803,144 USD) minted at Tether Treasury

Tx: https://whale-alert.io/transaction/tron/1d16bf065e1c28940e3572c8bad19b35f0e647d4779f272ac039c25076a31e89

Kind of an interesting take here:

https://nitter.net/ByzGeneral/status/1348607370163843075

> No wonder we're dropping hard. > > Even Coinbase started selling for the first time since... Forever? > > $BTC > > There's a bullish argument here though because spot sold of very aggressively but no new lower low was made. > > So, something is absorbing this selling. > > $BTC

https://nitter.net/LunoGlobal/status/1347185026757238786

> The #bitcoin market cap has just eclipsed > @tesla > , the largest automaker in the world! > > Our thoughts are with you > @elonmusk > Slightly smiling face

To repost my response from below, I think that tweet may have gotten ahead of themselves unless I missed something. My main source of info has been Tim Bieko, who's been shepherding info about EIP-1559 for a while.

Based on his EIP-1559 update #5, and his EIP-1559 mainnet readiness checklist, it looks like there's still some things left to do -- mainly relating to load testing, and writing reference and consensus tests.

Though those updates are a few weeks old now -- maybe a ton has happened since then!

https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/wnie2_201002

>Phase 0: The beacon chain

>We’re almost there! A v1.0 release candidate beacon chain spec is in the works. I believe the deposit contract deployment to be days, not weeks, away. And beacon chain genesis weeks, not months, after that.

I'm excited. I'll believe it when I see it, though.

Multiple Binance and Coinbase twitter accounts compromised. Be careful on Twitter right now.

edit: :loads more. Looks like a major compromise of some sort.

The scammers btc address: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh

I'll be back at my pc in a couple of hours and will copy and paste the articles in a reply, this extension works very well on the FT and a few others though:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

https://nitter.net/LidoFinance/status/1351169580874522626 > > A proposal has been created to add stETH to > @AaveAave > , allowing users to lend and borrow against the value of stETH. Desert island > > See the full proposal below: > https://governance.aave.com/t/proposal-add-support-for-steth-lido/2123

https://nitter.net/1inchExchange/status/1334992381242961930

> Police cars revolving light Skull and crossbones KILLER FEATURE DROP > > Clapping hands sign Private Transactions for everyone (not supported on Metamask) > Clapping hands sign NO MORE FRONT-RUNNING > HandshakeWe are now connected to 10 Ethereum miners in order to broadcast user transactions directly to the miners--REDUCIING Downwards arrow transaction mining time Wristwatch

And before it's asked:

> Use not Metamask. They don't support signing transactions. Ledger works very well and > @myetherwallet

https://nitter.net/APompliano/status/1329774212018475010

> Wow. BlackRock CIO of Fixed Income Rick Rieder talking about Bitcoin replacing gold on CNBC this morning.

EDIT:

Another take on same:

https://nitter.net/RaoulGMI/status/1329781132188119041

> This is huge news. This is the largest asset management firm on earth. 2021 is setting up to be a year of severe supply shortages vs. demand in Bitcoin, and upside price dislocations. #Bitcoin

Regarding EIP 1559

https://nitter.net/JHancock/status/1328361223520354305

> Hopefully, this diagram is self explanitory. If not, where does it need more clarity? > > Talking about the Fee Upgrade for Ethereum btw

https://nitter.net/kerooke/status/1328341089032548352

> On Friday, Skybridge Capital filed an amendment with the SEC, allowing their $3.6 billion fund to start investing in Bitcoin. > > Keep an eye on > @Scaramucci > Eyes

Yeah, these Ms are all different stages of progression through the merge spec. They're detailed and progress is updated here.

Many clients are now up to M4 having been only shown at 1 literally a couple of days ago. M5 is the last of the stages and comprises an All-to-All persistent devnet – All ready EL and CL teams create a long-lived devnet

As I said below, their beta starts next week and they have revamped their tokenomics this week which makes RPL more attractive to accumulate. https://hackmd.io/VGfPGpEVRNatZLkQKlV5ZA

In my view RPL is next to join things like Uniswap, Compound and Maker as key building blocks of the Ethereum ecosystem.

https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/eth2_news/https%3A%2F%2Fhackmd.io%2F%40benjaminion%2Fwnie2_200817

> In an ideal world, we would have four or more independent clients, each with less than, say, a 30% share of the network. In those circulstances, a client could go down for a while and we would barely notice it.

>Even if we can’t achieve that ideal, reducing the network dominance of a single client will lead to a more robust network. If 50% of the validators had vanished rather than 80%, it would have been a lot easier to recover. This is because, when clients drop, it affects block production, attestation inclusion, gossip effectiveness, peering, syncing: all things that have knock-on effects on the performance of the remaining validators.

Reminder for stakers/validators: try some of the other clients out! They worked better than Prysm during Medalla and it helps with keeping the beacon chain secure and working well.

I'm going through Coinbase's tutorial videos and they are wicked. Already earned $40 to boot.

Stellar (XLM) seems wicked. Not sure about Celo, MakerDao is incredible.

What's your guys thoughts on XLM and MKR? Is there such thing as not being exposed to the token but using their service to generate funds?

Thoughts on using ETH on Compound to earn interest? How risky is this, is it even worth it (after gas fees I'm guessing)

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3. Passport
4. Photo of yourself holding your I.D.
5. Stool Sample
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I think that's about it. Pretty accurate too.

OK...I was wrong. You don't have to give them your first born kid.

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Don't know if this helps, but TIL there is an institutional Metamask wallet:

>Institution-compliant custody solutions
>
>Simplify capital deployment into DeFi applications with multi-signature support and direct integration with leading custody providers.

https://metamask.io/institutions.html

TA or fortune tellers?

https://nitter.net/marenaltman/status/1351657816365391873 > > jan 21st has mars exact by degree squaring eth sun so watch out for a lil dip that day > 5:28 PM · Jan 19, 2021·Twitter Web App > >

https://nitter.net/ethereum/status/1328742903557087233

> Less than 24 hours until a special #Eth2 Genesis Edition of the EF Eth 2.0 Research team's AMA series. > > The AMA begins at 1PM UTC (8AM ET / 2PM CET) on 18 Nov, but your Genesis questions can be posted ahead of time here: > https://reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/jvkoat/ama_we_are_the_efs_eth_20_research_team_pt_5_18/

Might be some more exchange raid FUD incoming:

https://nitter.net/bigmagicdao/status/1304081583427649537

> Seems gate got raided by local police,This video has been spreading in WeChat group. Rumors says they got raided because they listed kimchi.

Lower time frames are screaming oversold, but looking at the long-term picture (3D/1W) this could just be the start of the breakout. https://cryptowat.ch/charts/BINANCE:ETH-USDT

I had one ETHUSD long open, but closed another (larger) one for small profits last night. Sigh.

Should have had more confidence. Reopened, aiming to hold until 500 at least.

Is crypto going up or is the market pricing in hyper inflation and collapse of western society?

Also...penguin party has launched the first production level release of PenguinSwap

This is simply a front end fork of UNISWAP with a handful of 'preferred tokens' added,to allow for cheaper trading routes. Currently UNI is not a preferred coin on uniswap.

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmV6yWXmr7fb8sXFskVAaEhwtiHtpoW5UVqiNeZj6EhQTk/#/swap?

Ui need a bit of CSS fixes to it still

A little hit of hopium

https://nitter.net/whale_map/status/1356201338149998592 > > So far, BTC tops occurred when many large HODLer transactions were moving on-chain. > > Right now, even though we are at higher prices (and hence more transactions can be qualified as "large"), not many significant outliers can be noticed compared to the previous times.

A message from the Status.im team that they posted on their messaging app:

>Head-up: Sometime next week(after 2020/01/12) we will be releasing Status V1 RC1 (1st Release Candidate) in to get more eyes on it before the real V1 release. In preparation for that the bridge that connects Discord to Status will be also upgraded to V1. As Beta and V1 are not compatible - they cannot exchange messages - this means messages from Status Beta versions won't show up here anymore. This will most probably happen during the weekend.

Finally!! It's been a long wait for this puppy.

From yesterday in case it didn't make it to the daily:

https://nitter.net/RaoulGMI/status/1352397419552657410

> Danger! : Im going to add a basket of 10 alts to my BTC and ETH bets, using this dip. Shill me your coin but with a quality paragraph WHY I should look at it. My knowledge base is low, so treat me like the idiot I am (nicely)
> > Maxi aggressive "shitcoin" posts = insta bloc > > Go.

https://nitter.net/jp_koning/status/1348602990307979264

> Bitcoiners have been telling me for years that as bitcoin gets bigger, its price swings will soften so that it becomes usable by regular folks for payments. But this isn't happening. Bitcoin is just as crazy volatile at $35,000 as it was at $3500, and $350, and $35.

https://nitter.net/n2ckchong/status/1330232388425838592

> It appears we may have just seen our latest DeFi flash loan attack. > > $20m in DAI stolen - potentially the biggest flash loan attack since Harvest a month ago, which took $30m in stables. > > (h/t to > @mattybchats > for spotting this tx)

https://nitter.net/safetyth1rd/status/1346490148830072834

> BED Theory > > Liquidity flows from Bitcoin to Ethereum to DeFi: > > Bitcoin brings in new Money, BTC.D goes up. > > When BTC.D hits resistance, money flows to ETH > > When ETHBTC hits resistance, money flows to DeFi

Thread worth reading.

https://nitter.net/AdamScochran/status/1301243267636396032

> Around 24 hours ago I noted that > @SushiSwap > has $27M worth of $SUSHI tokens in the dev wallet with no timelock or controls. Tons of people asked about it and Cointelegraph covered it. > > After not addressing it for a while the lead dev finally said: > > It's "not his priority"

Current testnet is V0.11, but V0.12 is considered the final testnet that needs 2 to 3 months for Phase 0 launch.

Edit: Here's the latest call notes indicating V0.12 is final.

As noted with the other reply, it seems Afri's tweet inadvertently confused everyone (me as well) and to be honest I've been trying to follow this since OG Casper and I'm as confused as ever... but I'm pretty confident in my 1st paragraph statement.

Tl;dr - EF continues to be amazing at everything but communications. I'll leave it at maybe I missed it, but it would be really helpful if someone of authority could just clear the air. It seems like Afri tried with that article maybe... idk. It's like frustrating sometimes to try and peice together 7 different Reddit posts and tweets to try and get 7/8ths of an answer. (Sorry, /rant over)

I got you fam!

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Just completed the Coinbase Earn tutorials on Celo. Decentralized, staking, smart-contract enabled, stablecoin cross-border payments. It attaches a wallet address to any mobile phone number. All well and good and all...

why build an entirely new blockchain to do this instead of just building on Ethereum? 🤨

I actually just read Kevin Rose's latest email and he's looking to hire a crypto analyst / newsletter writer: https://www.notion.so/Modern-Finance-Open-Positions-c814e658b5ff439ca650c83fde7c2f1f

Sadly I just noticed this on Schwab's Bitcoin FAQ page:

> ... Grayscale Ethereum Trusts (ETHE and ETCG) ...

Just wanted to scream "no you idiots one of those is NOT @#*& ethereum!". How many people have been misled by the whole "it's got Ethereum in the name" thing?

You'd think "Bitcoin Cash" would have been enough. Or I remember reading about back in the 1940s -- "International Business Machines Drycleaners" or something like that.

Check out https://ninite.com/ It lets you pick out a bunch of commonly used software and wraps them all into one neat little executable you can use to install it all at once. The cool thing is if you keep the exe and run it again it will update all of the software.

>Does everyone on here measure their positions in relation to BTC

No, I certainly don't.

I've seen one comment chain recently talking about being in ETH as having an "opportunity cost" as one isn't in BTC, but it was kind of nonsensical.

Despite so many people feeling aggrieved and indignant about the current ratio, it has been a good year. https://cryptowat.ch/charts/BINANCE:ETH-BTC?period=1w_Monday It really did bottom out in Sept-Dec 2019.

I traded ETHBTC a lot in 2017-2018, mostly ETHUSD now. My goal when trading has always been to increase ETH stack while drawing off some FIAT profits. If I was a truly objective emotionalness profit-seeking machine I would be more neutral, but I like Ethereum.

And you really can't economically validate without their help. It costs $50k/yr in sol for your validator to vote on the chain. And the only way to make that up is to get proposal slots. And to do that you need a substantial delegation. Out of your own pocket, or from the foundation.

I just spent ETH for a real product.

Realized i was starting to have more and more of my crypto on my https://status.im/ wallet as i tend to play with ethereum while on the phone / couch 10x as often as i pull out the ledger.

So to add a bit more security i went ahead and ordered a https://get.keycard.tech/

Coinbase commerce loaded my wallet app, i picked the wallet i wanted to use and it prefilled the $27 worth of eth and the destination address. Signed the transaction and returned to browser. Interface showed 8 confirmations and order was complete.