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@paulhauner Thank you for your comment! I had an impression from the Eth 2.0 call on 13.09.2018 that simple_serialise had been proposed for p2p serialisation (since p2p serialisation was on...

@mratsim Yes, I agree: make schema mandatory serialisation/deserialisation has many problematic consequences. It is not memory efficient, as you said, it precludes generic analysis tools and libraries, it introduces potential...

RLP is actually good serialisation format for wire encoding. I do not agree that it is overly complicated - but I have seen some implementations that make it look complicated....

> while allowing any other part of the world state to change in ways we do not know. you probably meant "not allowing" there Ah, no, it is correct, I...

I think it rather points to the index of txhash => tx number being unreliable

Maintaining ephemeral database while still staying in sync with the mainnet is going to require opening a long-lived read-transaction, and cause a rapid database bloat. However, such ephemeral database would...

@AskAlexSharov As far as I understand, the overlay is indeed writable. Yes, I think you are right, we could use `GetAsOf` to create an appearance of a fork without a...

Could you please refresh this based on the current `devel`?

Oh sorry, I was still assuming it wasn't done, now there are more conflicts :( I will try to resolve them after the next release

I have moved changes into this PR where I resolved the conflicts. Thanks a lot! https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon/pull/5710