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The Beacon Chain, and ETH2 Security/Upgrade paths

This is a followup to my post, Setting up a NUC for ETH Staking - Ubuntu, Nethermind, Lighthouse, Prometheus, Grafana. This is essentially a mish mash of interesting knowledge that I have gained since setting up my rig. It includes: * Information about the specification for the beacon chain * Information about

Dec 17, 2020

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Setting up a NUC for ETH Staking - Ubuntu, Nethermind, Lighthouse, Prometheus, Grafana

I am super intrigued by Proof of Stake and what it means for the future of Ethereum. I have missed the Genesis launch of ETH2 but I figured I'd have a play on the Goerli testnet just out of intrigue. The reason I have avoided ETH2 thus far is because:

Dec 04, 2020

14 min read

Command line cheat sheet

Whilst extremely simple stuff, I often find myself (at the end of a 12 hour day) with brain fuzz trying to remember the most simple of commands. Given how regularly I utilise these commands I figured that I would document them in one place for easy reference. Hopefully this reference

Jul 06, 2017

2 min read

Background tasks on Ubuntu

Across the Double Negative product line there are a number of vitally important 'behind the scenes' processes which allow our applications to function smoothly. For example: * This blog is powered by the Ghost blogging platform. Ghost is a node application and as such behind the scenes it is run using

Oct 28, 2016

4 min read

Installing the latest versions of v8 and v8js on Ubuntu

As you may be aware, the front end of the PubReviews.com website is built using ReactJS. I wrote about it here. For SEO purposes we utilise server side rendering of Javascript components (woo ! Isomorphic Javascript) such that on page load the user (or search engine) gets an instantaneous, near

Mar 10, 2016