It's an underappreciated triumph of Ethereum client developers that PeerDAS has now been running for nearly a year with basically no problems. PeerDAS was a complex task: it's the first large-scale instance of a blockchain that achieves consensus on the availability of data without needing any single node to download the entire block. Decentralized consensus without replication. And yet, it worked.

Note: you can repoint your wallet RPC to localhost, though make sure to set your node up so it functions as an RPC. However, many in-browser dapps will not work as effectively this way, and many others hardcoded their RPC to their own server. I am increasingly becoming a fan of avoiding browser dapps entirely and just doing everything by command line. Just did a full end-to-end test: updated my ENS record using a local python script reading and sending through my local node.

Reminder: you can now sync an ethereum node within half a day and with aggressive settings the space it takes up on disk can be under half a terabyte. EIP-4444 and hard work by client teams on optimizing snap sync has improved things *a lot*. Glamsterdam will improve the sync situation further still (eg. Nimbus's new sync protocol uses it)

Our latest #OnInvesting# podcast episode has dropped, on which @CollinMartinCS and I focus on what rising interest rates are really signaling, why stock market strength is masking weakness in breadth beneath surface, and how investors should think about bond allocations in higher-for-longer rate environment: