There are bazillions of sourdough recipes in the wild, foaming with traffic from eager bakers trapped in quarantine, ready for their sourdough starter baby with a punny name to graduate into a tube of sustenance and distraction during dark times. Sourdough recipes are more involved than regular bread recipes, that’s…

At Infura, we use Vipnode to control the peers of groups of nodes, where each group has a different role. We’ll explore several recent additions to Vipnode that make this possible. First, a little background about what Vipnode is and how it works. Vipnode is an open source project designed…

Since urllib3 was created in 2008, we have gained several amazing maintainers and hundreds of contributors. Any time you do anything that touches HTTP in Python, you’re probably using urllib3 behind the scenes. It is the 2nd most downloaded third-party Python package, after pip. Tens of thousands of engineering…

Progress Update #5 — What is vipnode? Vipnode is an open source implementation of economic incentives for running Ethereum full nodes who serve light clients — a critical component of ETH2.0 sharding! More context here. Vipnode has been approaching stability for a while now, so I quietly pushed out an official 2.0 release. Give…

Overall: Feature complete for the v2 milestone, approaching the v2.0 release. What is Vipnode? Vipnode is an implementation of economic incentives for running Ethereum full nodes who serve light clients. More context here. Current Status We’re approaching a stable release! You can try the latest demo binary release here: https://github.com/vipnode/vipnode/releases Once we’re…

Overall: Trimmed scope to meet end-of-August milestone due to some delays. What went well? Infura partnership is official! I’m collaborating with the team towards building out the Vipnode protocol and tooling to power a more decentralized Infura. 🎊 New redesign of vipnode.org is up, thanks to Tracy Osborn. 🎉 Ethereum Foundation grant funding…

Overall: On track for end of August, despite a couple dead ends. Engagement Last month, I published ‘An economic incentive for running Ethereum full nodes’ where I announced the vipnode grant funding, design, and goals. The article did well, after receiving some attention from /r/ethereum and even earned a Chinese translation…

This is a story about vipnode, an Ethereum Foundation Grant recipient. Full Node, Light Node: What’s the difference? When you connect to the Ethereum network, you can use a full node or a light node (also known as a light client). A full node has a copy of the entire state of the Ethereum blockchain and executes…

I spent fifty hours setting up my new computer, and I feel a mixture of shame and pride about it. We spend a lot of our lives in our computers. Working, socializing, relaxing. On the work laptop, at the home desktop, on the phone in bed. We live in our…