You know, you don't have to pay any fees when you're solo staking, so already that puts you

above the rest from a rational standpoint, but the other thing I want to highlight is that

my prediction is that there is going to be special adrops specifically for solo validators.

Bankless Nation, it is a special day. Today, we are hard forking.

Eat staking withdrawals is enabled. David, what is going on? Who do we have on?

Yeah, the Shanghai now called Chapella upgrade coming to Ethereum, coming to a blockchain near you.

The long awaited withdrawals hard fork that allows stakers to withdraw Ether.

We hard forked into proof of stake a while ago, created the beacon chain, did the merge,

but in an abundance of caution, we left out this one ability called withdrawals,

just to not overcomplicate things. It's really the only reason why we didn't include withdrawals

in this original merge was to not to make the merge as least complicated as possible.

So, fast forward to where we are now. We are now enabling withdrawals. And so this has caused a

bunch of conversations around the crypto sphere. Is this bearish? Is the ETH price going to dump?

Is it actually this bullish? And more people are going to stake as a result of this.

What happens to LIDA? What happens to Rocketpool? What happens to the insane supply of Ether

that is in Coinbase? There is a lot of second order consequences as a result of this merge.

There are 18 million Ether that is locked up in the beacon chain and that becomes to be unlocked.

Later today, I believe at 9 p.m. No, 6 p.m. Eastern time, 6.30 p.m.

And so, this episode is going live a few hours earlier than that. And this is just a conversation

with three guests from around the Ethereum ecosystem. We got Anthony Sazano, Ethereum community member

and content producer, also solar staker and solo staker tinkerer. He gives his perspectives as

what his role is in the Ethereum ecosystem as a result of being a solo staker and what he's doing.

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