Motivation This is a bi-weekly series of updates As an open-source project, help the community to understand the latest progress of Ethereum protocol R&D Hope you can find the inspiration here, and hope this doc can be the beginning of your contribution to the Ethereum Week two (1.29 - 2.11) Execution Layer Updates Shanghai/Capella upgradeZhejiang public testnetResources: links, explorer, faucet, etc. Fully open, and everyone can request test ETH and sign-up their own validators Now have 61544 active validators (most from EF), which can see here
2/6/2023Author: LuozhuZhang What is Consensus Background The Byzantine Generals ProblemBackgroundBasic idea: abstract The background of consensus knowledge In a 1982 paper, Leslie Lamport What is it
1/17/2023Table of contents The background The main thingsBeacon Chain withdrawals EOF EIP-4844 Other EIPs The roadmap and timeline Timeline
1/4/2023When learning the blockchain consensus mechanism, there is an inescapable concept, which is the "Byzantine Generals Problem" Around this problem, many solutions were born, some of which were abandoned, others were feasible (and inspired Nakamoto PoW and Ethereum PoS) Byzantine Generals Problem In the blockchain world, the consensus mechanism is to require all individual nodes (generally the number of nodes will be very large) to agree on a single fact (this single fact is the transaction history) So in simple terms, the consensus is about reaching an agreement Also, a situation makes it more difficult for nodes to reach a consensus, which Leslie Lamport proposed in his 1982 paper👇
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