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How to find if a block is finalized
Is there a simple way to find out if a given block is finalized in PoS Ethereum?
Currently, I'm calling the endpoint ../eth/v1/beacon/states/finalized/finality_checkpoints of the Beacon Node and it ...
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What is Committe Index in Ethereum Beacon Chain?
The Ethereum beacon chain has a concept of committee index, and I do not understand it.
What exactly is the committee index? Why was it needed? How many committee index are there per slot? One or many?...
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What exactly is the content of blocks on the beacon chain?
I am trying to wrap my head around how the POS ethereum will work and have so many questions.
First one is basically about the beacon chain. What exactly would the blocks in the beacon chain contain?
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Will Beacon node end up supporting smart contracts?
I am aware that part of the PoS migration is the Phase 2, which will introduce the Smart Contract Execution. What is not clear though is if beacon nodes would be expanded to support smart contract ...
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What is the rationale behind the content of a beacon chain's block?
In this question where I asked What exactly is the content of blocks on the beacon chain? I got pointed to the data structure representing the content of the beacon chain, which is:
class ...
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Will Eth 2.0 be implemented in geth (go-ethereum) or will it run on a new client?
Geth is the official implementation of Ethereum based on the coding language Go. Currently, there are 8 teams that are building Eth 2.0 https://www.coindesk.com/next-gen-buidlers-the-8-teams-working-...
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