Alex March

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There are a lot of factors that can affect the network. For starters, you can switch your validator node from WiFi to a LAN cable. Does the latency cause issues with your attestations? Do you see missed attestations frequenty?

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Home stakers & node operators! We created a survey to start creating better data on what home / solo stakers care about & need, in their own words! It helps researchers kno how to advocate for us (some Qs were contributed by them!) Pls fill it out if you run validators! https://stakinglandscape.limesurvey.net/748278

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What are you using right now? And are you sure the router is the actual bottleneck and not the ISP itself?

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Destin (Getting Smarter Everyday on YouTube) made a good video on the topic. Apart from visual there are a few other phenomenons like winds changing and animal behaviour. Experiencing that in person at least once can be worth the travel I'd imagine :)

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If anyone is interested, especially if you're in Tokyo, please DM me!

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Built a few extra hillside46 boards (open hardware/software by mmccoyd on GitHub). I've been using one at work and wanted another one at home but the JLCPCB minimum batch is 5 PCBs :) MCU is an RP2040 SeaPicro, Choc v1 brown/white switches, clear, white and black cases.

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4. But would like to try Thorium as well

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1 for me I've honestly never used it before, but should probably try

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eth-docker depends on docker compose, so you must have it installed in order to run the stack (I'm assuming you have it running already) try "ethd cmd" command that I mentioned, if ethd commands give you errors then you probably don't have docker compose installed You can get technical help in ethstaker discord btw

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If you didn't touch your .env file, it will be the "latest" docker image version at the time you ran ./ethd up. Running ./ethd version should still work. "./ethd cmd" is a wrapper around "docker compose". So, to check the teku version directly inside a container you can run: ./ethd cmd exec consensus teku --version

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I am prototyping a collectors-like app for people who are into locksport (recreational lock picking) where proving that you opened a lock earns you a non transferable nft. Is building on farcaster a good decision for this to add the social/voting elements? How can I get started with it? Currently testing with foundry.

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Gotta go with eth-docker if you're already familiar with containerised apps. Even without any knowledge of docker it's dead easy to setup - essentially a few cli commands and a few lines in .env file.

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not to mention, if previously gathered data (for "analytics purposes") already had a phone number associated but was not used to target ads, you could probably leverage that and create profiles from existing data, with the help of MTS of course

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this would be cool, it's otherwise difficult to reach the owner, if they don't use opensea or actively trade ENS

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This pretty much allows you to link all the gathered activity to a name behind a SIM card. So if you used your name to register a SIM, any behaviour (by extension political views and maybe some threat-score) can be attributed to you as an individual.

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Stake from home if you can.

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I ran besu+lighthouse for a while but had issues with missed attestations and Java VM consuming a ton of ram. Switched to nethermind and been smooth sailing since.

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Hey Remy nice to see you on farcaster! Appreciate all the work you put into the ethstaker community.

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Yeah I kinda feel the same, but my other validators cannot sustain the RPL purchase every month. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm okay with missing out on RPL rewards for a few cycles :)

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I have a couple of solo validators and a couple of rocketpool ones. How religious are you about keeping your RPL collateral above minimum? I find that almost every monthly RPL round I need to add at least 0.5 ETH to stay above 10%, which I gave up on recently.

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