Ramblings about the Ethereum merge from a Solidity developer's perspective

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BlockchainGandalf

Keir Finlow-Bates

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This channel features regular updates devoted to explaining issues surrounding blockchain, from the technical through to economics and philosophy. I also look at tech startup issues, innovation, and the patenting process. You can get a copy of my book at http://mybook.to/moveover or read more about it at http://www.thinklair.com/

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Ramblings about the Ethereum merge from a Solidity developer's perspective

BlockchainGandalf

12 minutes 31 seconds

3 years ago

Ramblings about the Ethereum merge from a Solidity developer's perspective

I find the best way to understand what is going on in a given technology is to actually get my hands dirty and install, configure, and run the underlying software.

Last weekend I configured an Ethereum testnet node - the Göerli testnet to be precise - to examine what is involved in running all the client software and staking some ether (göETH in this case - I don't have $64000 dollars spare to try the mainnet).

In this episode, I talk about the various components required, and a bit about how they work and what they do: - the execution node, - the beacon chain node, and - the validator