Jacek Sieka

the canonical solution here really is to not use `make` to launch the node - ie users don't need to recompile just to relaunch, generally. what stands in the way...

> copy std/json into stew/shims to get the most critical bugfixes fwiw, I started doing this, but it's good to take a step back and see where it might lead:...

`JsonNode` suffers the same problems as `std/json` though, so it's not really a solution (since it is `std/json`)

The attestation batching I think is perhaps the easiest and the most impactful thing we can do, followed by sync blocks. Fork choice reorgs, not so much because there is...

https://ethereum.github.io/eth2.0-APIs/#/Beacon/getStateValidators

there's certainly validatorids in there which is the pubkeys, if you know those you can get specific validators, and the response includes the index

> Nimbus should have an option to disable state pruning. Indeed, as @etan-status points out, the above request can significantly be simplified simply by requesting `/eth/v1/beacon/states//...` - there is no...

Nimbus generally does not index state roots at all as these have little value / there are very few uses where they are better suited than simply using the slot...

Related GCC bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98845

> --insecure is a kind of a concerning flag name to pass to a piece of software I'm about to delegate tens of thousands of (hypothetical) euros to (yes I...