Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital

Re:Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital by sandGorgon on Monday January 15, 2018 @11:17PM (#16155789)

At my startup, we have created a geth fork that uses Postgresql instead of leveldb. It took quite some effort...but we are running a full node right now. I think we are going to put in more effort there - we already implemented soft deletes,etc. Smarter people than me can probably build a better data model for the merkle trees leveraging postgres.

It's 2x slower than leveldb (if that matters to you), but given how slow a blockchain really is ...it is plenty fast enough.

https://github.com/RedCarpetUp/go-ethereum/tree/dev?files=1

I believe that it is time for developers to start thinking of single node scalability and infrastructure that is maintainable..rather than convenience.

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Re:Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital by MaxKK on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:32AM (#16156444)

Can you give me your reasoning to port the db to Postgresql? Thanks.

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Re:Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital by sandGorgon on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:34AM (#16156452)

I have a long-ish discussion at https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/674

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Re:Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital by MaxKK on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:42AM (#16156483)

Thanks. Blends in with our opinion.

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Re:Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital by sandGorgon on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:09AM (#16157047)

Umm..so you agree or disagree ?

Please feel free to comment on our code and point out some obvious flaws. We would love to learn.

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Re:Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital by MaxKK on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @02:13AM (#16166089)

I'm affiliated with a cryptocurrency which is using Postgres as its underlying database since the beginning. So I agree with your sentiment.

Single node scalability is often overseen, but in my opinion has to come first, before you can expand scalability network wide. It's like standard computer science practices are not being applied in the crypto world, yet.

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Re:Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital by shazow on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @11:07AM (#16159160)

That looks pretty cool. Any plans to submit a PR upstream?

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Re:Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital by sandGorgon on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @02:28PM (#16161407)

Yup. Im a little intimidated by sending it right now - I'm not a crypto "expert". So I'm looking for some informal review and then probably submit it.

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