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2020-02-18 Besu Contributor Call Notes

2020-02-18 Besu Contributor Call Notes

Feb 17, 2020

Recording of call - https://consensys.zoom.us/rec/share/-MoqPu2uq31LYLfjzkbTU695IsfaT6a8hiIX8_EKzkZI5_dD51ilQUFRK4dlFt9h?startTime=1581987869000

Housekeeping

General Announcements

  • Conferences

    • ETHDenver

      • Successful conference

      • DApp focused and so no Besu bounty was taken

      • Working towards stateless Ethereum

    • ETHCC is still coming

    • Hyperledger Global Forum

      • We are still on given the travel restrictions, but watch this space

Release Updates

  • 1.3.9

    • ETC release for fork support

  • 1.4RC

    • Going to have an RC2 this week, with full release planned for next week

    • Everything planned should be in

Work updates

  • The ETC migration from ethash to keccak256 is to level the ASIC playing field, rather than trying to keep being ASIC resistant

  • The roadmap page will be updated shortly with the plans for 1.5

    • Performance improvements

    • Improvements to the private state support

    • Beam sync, especially important as a first step to being a stateless client

    • Mining support improvements

      • Transaction pool management

Other Business

  • N/A

Open Forum

  • Fast vs Full sync from @Aditya Singh

    • Security guarantees are about the same if you validate the pivot block

    • Ethereum is different to Bitcoin in that each block includes the root hash from a petricia tree of the unspent transactions which allows us to start in the middle