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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[โ€“] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum#Transition_to_proof-of-stake

I know Etherum made the switch, but I don't really know about the rest of the ecosystem.

Also since we're throwing questions around for those who don't follow the developments anymore:

  • Did larger blocks ever become popular, since the BTC, BCH split?
  • Did the lightning payment network ever become popular?
[โ€“] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Did larger blocks ever become popular, since the BTC, BCH split?

At least on the Ethereum ecosystem, it has been increasing slowly until last year. See "Ethereum Mainnet: Historical TPS Capacity" [TPS = transactions per second] graph here: https://www.growthepie.com/quick-bites/ethereum-scaling

Since launch, Ethereum Mainnet has methodically improved efficiency and capacity without compromising decentralization or security. It went through several key upgrades, each contributing to incremental improvements in efficiency and capacity. You can read more about these on our ecosystem page. From 2015 to today, Ethereum scaled from ~0.71 TPS to 24.9 TPS, a 35.0x increase.

After years of steady gains, the pace is set to accelerate. The goal is to scale by ~3x per year with upcoming improvements. This takes today's 24.9 TPS into the thousands before decade's end.

There are many other upgrades yet to come. You can also find more details about them here: https://forkcast.org/

But the scaling approach also changed. We are no longer just looking for vertical scaling, like larger blocks, but also via horizontal scaling, which is usually called Ethereum Layer 2, which aims at millions of TPS. That first link also has more details in case you want to dive deeper.

Did the lightning payment network ever become popular?

As far as I am aware, it's barely used