Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted a proposal, or a pull request, on Saturday that would merge the backend programs used by nodes to interact with Ethereum’s Beacon Chain, which handles ...

Vitalik Buterin calls for a review of Ethereum's beacon and execution client split to make running personal nodes easier.

Vitalik Buterin questions Ethereum’s two-client node design and suggests simpler architecture as Lean Ethereum consensus research advances.

At Bitcoin’s inception, nodes played a few simple, yet important, roles: namely, to read, write, and validate transactions, as well as mining blocks, confirming BTC transfers in the process. Mining, ...