[ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning

[FP91G]

Ethereum developers eye February public testnet for Shanghai upgrade
The planned Shanghai upgrade of the Ethereum network will focus exclusively on ETH withdrawals.
Developers are planning to release a public test network for the Shanghai upgrade by the end of February.
https://www.theblock.co/post/200005/ethereum-developers-eye-february-public-testnet-for-shanghai-upgrade

[FutureSeeker2021]

Ethereum  has come along way. A lot of people in private circles are talking about how AI is now creeping on the ETH chain. Generating ART. Creating NFT’s . Even creating Account’s and selling it’s own NFT’s. Crazy times we live in.  Never could have imagined ETH giving rise to Skynet  

https://opensea.io/AI_Mother

[blockman]

As bitcoin goes, ETH is up too.

Ethereum  has come along way. A lot of people in private circles are talking about how AI is now creeping on the ETH chain. Generating ART. Creating NFT’s . Even creating Account’s and selling it’s own NFT’s. Crazy times we live in.   Never could have imagined ETH giving rise to Skynet 

That's giving the idea to even in the corporate world, some of them are now giving their NFTs to their consumers and not just giving it but also selling it.
Well, thanks to ETH's smart contract that has opened it all and some projects that have been made out of it before got the little foot steps that has been followed through ETH.

[safar1980]

The Ethereum Foundation and Vitalik held the first AMA on reddit in 2023. Full text:
[AMA] We are EF Research (Pt. 9: 11 January, 2023)
https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1613911159828262913
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/107cqi8/ama_we_are_ef_research_pt_9_11_january_2023/

[FP91G]

Ethereum continues to dominate developer activity, having increased its full-time developer count by 9% to 1,873 — which is more than the next three highest ecosystems combined: Polkadot (752), Cosmos (511) and Solana (383).
Developer counts on non-Ethereum chains are catching up though. The Cosmos and Solana networks increased 34% and 36%, respectively, while Starknet is among one of the mid-sized ecosystems to have made a solid run In 2022 with a 214% increase in developer count.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/number-of-devs-increased-during-crypto-winter-electric-capital-report

[zasad@]

https://www.developerreport.com

Ethereum leads in the number of developers

https://www.developerreport.com/developer-report
"1. Monthly active developers grew +5% year-over-year, despite 70%+ decline in prices.
23,343 monthly developers as of December 2022.
471,000+ monthly code commits are made monthly toward open-source crypto.
+8% YoY growth in Full-Time developers. Full-Time developer growth is the most important growth signal to track because they contribute 76% of code commits.
All-time high of 61,000+ developers contributed code for the first time in 2022.

2. Crypto network value is back to January 2018 levels, but monthly active developers have increased +297% since 2018. Comparing the previous crypto winter to today:
3x growth in Bitcoin monthly active developers, from 372 to to 946.
5x growth in Ethereum monthly active developers, from 1,084 to 5,819.
Solana, Polkadot, Cosmos, & Polygon grew from fewer than 200 devs to 1,000+ developers.

3. Major ecosystems are emerging beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum.
72% of monthly active devs work outside the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems.
Solana, NEAR, and Polygon grew 40% YoY and have 500+ total monthly active developers.
Sui, Aptos, Starknet, Mina, Osmosis, Hedera, Optimism, and Arbitrum grew 50%+ YoY and have 100+ total monthly active developers.
3,901 developers work in DeFi every month across multiple chains, +240% since DeFi summer. 50% of DeFi developers are outside of Ethereum.
900+ developers write code monthly in NFTs across chains, +299% since 2021."

[theskillzdatklls]

Really cool resource @zasad. Never seen that before, always been curious.

Having that many active developers on a project really kind of shows a technical moat that ETH is developing. When there's that much of a community and that much being built, it's going to get harder and harder to compete with it long term. Would be easier to just strap on to it's infrastructure.

I'm a huge Bitcoin fan but it's a bit boring technologically - which is a good thing. I think it's great that there's two ends to the spectrum for how things are ultimately working out for BTC/ETH.

[digaran]

Hey ETH coiners, recently I encountered an address with the private key of all 0s, is that the genesis address? It has a lot of shitcoins and 10 ETH. Since nobody wants the coins inside, is there any way to transfer from that address? If you could move the coins, just gimme 25%, thanks in advance.

Yours truly, forum beggar/troll.🤣

[Jcga]

"9 years ago today" 

[zasad@]

Hey ETH coiners, recently I encountered an address with the private key of all 0s, is that the genesis address? It has a lot of shitcoins and 10 ETH. Since nobody wants the coins inside, is there any way to transfer from that address? If you could move the coins, just gimme 25%, thanks in advance.

Yours truly, forum beggar/troll.🤣

Take money $170,000
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5407489

An ethereum coin transaction costs much less than a token transaction, so the fraudster's transaction will have a higher priority.

I don't think anyone other than a scammer will be able to take shitcoins from this address. It is better to publish your data so that it is indexed in the search and the scammer gets less money.

[FP91G]

The first set of testing has commenced for the much anticipated Shanghai upgrade, expected in March, that will enable staked ether withdrawals. Some minor glitches were reported.
Ethereum developers said they successfully created a copy of the blockchain – known as a “shadow fork” – to provide a testing environment ahead of a crucial upgrade known as the Shanghai hard fork.
The shadow fork occurred at 10:40 coordinated universal time (5:40 a.m. ET), according to Parithosh Jayathi, DevOps engineer at the Ethereum Foundation.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/01/23/latest-ethereum-shadow-fork-brings-blockchains-shanghai-upgrade-closer-to-reality/

[theskillzdatklls]

The first set of testing has commenced for the much anticipated Shanghai upgrade, expected in March, that will enable staked ether withdrawals. Some minor glitches were reported.
Ethereum developers said they successfully created a copy of the blockchain – known as a “shadow fork” – to provide a testing environment ahead of a crucial upgrade known as the Shanghai hard fork.
The shadow fork occurred at 10:40 coordinated universal time (5:40 a.m. ET), according to Parithosh Jayathi, DevOps engineer at the Ethereum Foundation.
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/01/23/latest-ethereum-shadow-fork-brings-blockchains-shanghai-upgrade-closer-to-reality/

Definitely looking forward to this. Would be nice if this does go to schedule and releases March-April.

Probably one of the absolute dumbest ETH conspiracies was that ETH stakers were never going to be able to withdraw their ETH. That circulated far and wide for some time. I expected this not to happen until the summer of 2023 all else equal but I was surprised to hear last month that it was coming sooner than that.

[digaran]

https://opensea.io/AI_Mother

Wow how can I generate an ass like that? I want them with true skin color though, not intrested on fake colored asses.🤣

[FP91G]

Ethereum staking withdrawal testnet Zhejiang to go online Feb. 1
According to a Jan. 31 post by Ethereum Foundation developer Parithosh Jayanthi, the “Zhejiang” public withdrawal testnet will launch on Feb. 1 at 3:00 pm UTC. Six days after Zhejiang, the Shanghai and Capella testnets will also be triggered at epoch 1350. Jayanthi noted:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-staking-withdrawal-testnet-zhejiang-to-go-online-feb-1

[FutureSeeker2021]

https://opensea.io/AI_Mother

Wow how can I generate an ass like that? I want them with true skin color though, not intrested on fake colored asses.🤣

How could you tell if something was hidden in the NFT. Would it be possible for "code" or secret to be hidden in the NFT image? AI source code hidden in the NFT? Would make for a great way for AI to spread.

[safar1980]

ENS DAO's proposal to "sell 10,000 ETH to cover operating expenses for the next two years" has been approved and will be implemented after the 2-day lock-up period. ENS DAO previously held 40,746 ETH and 2.46 million USDC.
https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1622934055242338304?

[zasad@]

https://www.euroe.com/blog/membrane-finance-launches-euroe-on-ethereum
Membrane Finance launches EUROe on Ethereum
"HELSINKI, Finland – 2 February 2023 – Finnish fintech company Membrane Finance has today launched EUROe – Europe’s first and only EU-regulated full-reserve stablecoin and payment network.

EUROe transforms a fiat Euro into a 1:1 pegged digital currency transactable on Ethereum, with planned support for an increasing number of blockchains. One EUROe is always one Euro. For each EUROe issued, at least one fiat Euro exists in a European financial institution or bank, ring-fenced from Membrane Finance."

[FP91G]

Tim Beiko: "Assuming everything goes well, we'd probably have another testnet mid march or so, and then mainnet either late march/early April, although it's definitely not a "final" date. The mainnet date always depends on how well the testnet forks go. If we find a bug, we will always delay and fix things to be safe."
https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain/status/1624209330697543682?

[zasad@]

https://www.oodaloop.com/technology/2023/02/14/how-the-sec-could-reshape-ethereums-staking-landscape-for-the-better/

How the SEC Could Reshape Ethereum’s Staking Landscape for the Better

"The settlement, first reported by CoinDesk, forced Kraken to wind down its staking-as-a-service offering to U.S. clients. Previously, the service allowed retail investors to “stake” some amount of cryptocurrency with blockchains in exchange for yield. So-called proof-of-stake blockchains like Ethereum enlist users to stake crypto assets as a form of security guarantee in exchange for rewards, similar to interest payments.
Proof-of-work networks like Bitcoin, by contrast, are operated by a more energy-intensive process of crypto “mining.” (Ethereum famously transitioned from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake last year.) The Kraken-SEC settlement could spell doom for a growing class of staking-as-a-service products, which allow users to stake with lower up-front costs or technical know-how than typically required. Around $25 billion worth of ether (ETH) is currently staked on Ethereum, with 18% of that stake held by Coinbase and Kraken – the two largest platforms with staking services."

[CounterEntropy]

I am trying to get a standalone PHP code without any external dependency to generate an Ethereum address/key pair. So I asked OpenAI ChatGPT to write the code for me. I got two different versions from it...

Version 1

Code:

include "keccak.php";
use kornrunner\Keccak;

// Generate a random private key
$private_key = bin2hex(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(32));

// Compute the public key from the private key using elliptic curve cryptography
$public_key = '0x'.bin2hex(gmp_export(gmp_mul(gmp_init('0x'.bin2hex(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(32)), 16), gmp_init('0x'.bin2hex(gmp_powm(gmp_init(2), gmp_init('0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF5D576E7357A4501DDFE92F46681B20A0', 16), gmp_init('0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF5D576E7357A4501DDFE92F46681B20A1', 16))), 16))));

// Compute the Keccak-256 hash of the public key (as a hex string)
$address = '0x' . substr(Keccak::hash(hex2bin(substr($public_key, 2)), 256), -40);

echo "Private key: $private_key<br>";
echo "Address: $address<br>";

Version 2

Code:

include "keccak.php";
use kornrunner\Keccak;

function generate_ethereum_address() {
// Generate a new private key
$privateKey = bin2hex(random_bytes(32));
echo "Private Key: " . $privateKey. "<br>";

// Derive the public key from the private key
$publicKey = hex2bin('04' . str_pad(gmp_strval(gmp_init(substr($privateKey, 0, 64), 16), 16), 64, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT) . str_pad(gmp_strval(gmp_init(substr($privateKey, 64), 16), 16), 64, '0', STR_PAD_LEFT));

// Generate the Ethereum address from the public key
$address = '0x' . substr(Keccak::hash(substr($publicKey, 1), 256), -40);

// Return the Ethereum address
return $address;
}

// Generate an Ethereum address
$address = generate_ethereum_address();

// Output the Ethereum address
echo "Address: " . $address. "<br>";

For Keccak, this code is used - https://github.com/kornrunner/php-keccak/blob/main/src/Keccak.php

Sample o/p of Version 1 is...

Code:

Private key: 1941069a40cc71a83b8df773e0b45cdb8aa70b748710c82eace662c07ede4cf8
Address: 0x753215ef5214d2494df5e19dafa5644d034d201c

Sample o/p of Version 2 is...

Code:

Private key: 1941069a40cc71a83b8df773e0b45cdb8aa70b748710c82eace662c07ede4cf8
Address: 0x753215ef5214d2494df5e19dafa5644d034d201c

Clearly, address generated by both versions are wrong and AI is unable to fix the code. Can any of you please fix it?