Protocol Fellowship invites everyone interested in Ethereum core development. An opportunity to contribute to FOSS distributed systems and work directly with core devs/researchers of biggest decentralized blockchain platform
It's not actually pruning, the full node is really around 1TB. That 18TB number comes from old naive design for an archive node. Archive is basically cached state after each historical block. The 1.1tb full node can generate all this data by executing blocks and the current generation of archive nodes can store it around 3TB instead of 18TB.
Interesting, I am doing exactly the same thing with GrapheneOS and never had a problem. If you have a Pixel, I would strongly recommend to consider Graphene a degoogling it. You can also install via Fdroid or Obtainium and I don't see how their apps could be supported in Google Play
Do you have any insight into crypto ecosystem or just troll here?
First of all, zcash is focused on private payments and Tor helps its users to stay anonymous while using third party wallets, etc. It's their dependency and relevant privacy project so they decide to support it. But this is nothing new, crypto ecosystem has been contributing to Tor for a decade, starting in Silk Road era. Many privacy related project have anon contributors only funded in crypto. It's literally FOSS native payment method.
These days, public goods funding of free and open software is one of the most active areas in crypto scene. They activate individual donors and organizations/DAOs to donate towards impactful non-profit projects. Quadratic funding platforms like Gitcoin are used to funnel millions of dollars to FOSS.
Store of value is a narrative which became dominant in the libertarian fueled Bitcoin community. There is so much more happening:
- Anonymous and bordeless payments, digital cash, the whole point of Bitcoin in the first place
- DeFi, basically fully FOSS, permissionless trustless financial system where people can take loans, get interest on savings, trade, etc
- Identity, being able to verify reputation and decentralized naming like ENS
- Space for artists and pseudo-artists to serve a niche but sizable clientele of NFT buyers
- Funding public goods, regenerative finance employed by crypto communities is probably the best way of funding FOSS I have seen
- DAOs and coordination mechanisms for decentralized communities
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For anyone interested in in-depth details of Ethereum protocol and upgrades, checkout the Protocol Study Group. Yesterday's presentation was about scaling and Danksharding, given by its creator https://epf.wiki/
