Shapella in the Rearview: After Major Upgrade, What’s Next for Ethereum? - Ep. 480

Unchained

Laura Shin

Tech News, Business News, News

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week’s major Ethereum upgrade, Shapella (it was really two upgrades, Shanghai and Capella, in one), brings the network’s multi-year journey to proof-of-stake to a close. With validator withdrawals now live, the Ethereum Foundation’s Tim Beiko explains Shapella’s significance, why EIP-4844 is the next big thing, and what else is on Ethereum’s roadmap. Show highlights: how Ethereum transitioned from a proof-of-work consensus mechanism to proof-of-stake what the concerns about enabling withdrawals among developers were why the upgrade has “de-risked” staking on Ethereum whether there are going to be more solo stakers now that The Merge is fully completed what’s next in the roadmap of Ethereum and how EIP-4844 will decrease the cost of posting data for Layer 2s what “proposer-builder separation” is and what it intends to solve Thank you to our sponsors! Crypto.com Railgun DAO Guest Tim Beiko, head of the Ethereum protocol developer calls Previous appearances on Unchained: Why Ethereum's Merge Was Delayed and Why It Won't Reduce Gas Fees Much Previous coverage of Unchained on the upgrade: Ethereum's Shapella Upgrade - What to Expect? How Will ETH React to Ethereum’s Shanghai Upgrade? Links Unchained: Staked Ethereum Withdrawals Enabled As Shanghai Upgrade Goes Live Nansen: The Shanghai Upgrade Dashboard CoinDesk: What’s Next After the Ethereum Shanghai Upgrade Known as Shapella Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.9	After Tuesday's episode with Gabriel Shapiro
0:17.4	and Fatimae funny today,
0:19.2	when out I received a message from a listener
0:21.2	who works for the IRS.
0:23.2	During the episode, we had wondered if the IRS
0:25.7	would share information on whether you owned crypto
0:28.3	to other government agencies.
0:30.2	And it turns out the answer is no.
0:32.6	This listener who prefers to remain anonymous
0:34.9	said Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code
0:39.1	prevents disclosure of taxpayer information
0:41.8	even to other federal agencies absent specific legislation
0:45.3	to the contrary.
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0:48.7	And now onto the show.
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