Recording of call - https://consensys.zoom.us/rec/share/-MoqPu2uq31LYLfjzkbTU695IsfaT6a8hiIX8_EKzkZI5_dD51ilQUFRK4dlFt9h?startTime=1581987869000

Housekeeping

General Announcements

• Conferences
  • ETHDenver
    
    • Successful conference
    • DApp focused and so no Besu bounty was taken
    • Working towards stateless Ethereum
  • ETHCC is still coming
  • Hyperledger Global Forum
    • We are still on given the travel restrictions, but watch this space

Release Updates

• 1.3.9
  
  • ETC release for fork support
• 1.4RC
  • Going to have an RC2 this week, with full release planned for next week
  • Everything planned should be in

Work updates

• The ETC migration from ethash to keccak256 is to level the ASIC playing field, rather than trying to keep being ASIC resistant
• The roadmap page will be updated shortly with the plans for 1.5
  • Performance improvements
  • Improvements to the private state support
  • Beam sync, especially important as a first step to being a stateless client
  • Mining support improvements
    • Transaction pool management

Other Business

• N/A

Open Forum

• Fast vs Full sync from aditya singh
  
  • Security guarantees are about the same if you validate the pivot block
  • Ethereum is different to Bitcoin in that each block includes the root hash from a petricia tree of the unspent transactions which allows us to start in the middle