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hello um let's get started um so I
believe uh anyone should be able to be
uh solo scking these days um my
grandmother she would have been 95 this
year she died 5 years ago but even her
should be able to do it she was pretty
good with Facebook um but um along the
way she might be struggling so let's
check these out solo stickers are
important um we've heard a few of these
before uh they're the one um uh they're
the strong force keeping the original
Arium EOS alive uh including
decentralization credible neutrality
censorship resistance so we should get
more of these guys and we should be uh
helping them when they need
support so the first one uh where to
start well um this is a good question uh
discovering resources can be uh
initially hard for some I had some fun
this week I went on Google and I
searched how to gole how to stake on
ethereum and some of the resources that
I got some of the page uh that I got uh
were quite uh not as as I'd like um like
I got a few uh a bunch of like these
centralized custodial Services um which
are not ideal to me um this struggle
should be very easy to overcome
eventually if you're uh persistent
the second one I like this website
called sticking. directory uh if you go
there you'll see that there's 55 uh
different ways of staking so uh I mean
uh this can be quite overwhelming the
first question you'll have to ask
yourself is um do you want to put 302 e
into this um and even if your answer is
yes well you'll still have a ton of
options so you'll have to kind of sit
through some of these options learn from
them uh maybe try a few of them on test
net if they have the possibility if the
answer is no you don't have 32 e to put
into this there's a lot of other options
too um so make your own research see
what fits uh your use
case I like this little box called D
node we've seen uh we've seen it uh it's
great you just plug it in it works uh
but if you want to go to a different
path you want to build your own machine
you'll have to figure out the hardware
you'll have to figure out how much
memory you want to use you'll have to
think about the CPU uh what kind of SSD
what kind of bandwidth you have to
provide this device with um we have good
resources on this um I I I would like to
improve the resources in terms of
bandwidth because the the numbers there
are quite
fizzy um but this this eventually should
be easy uh to resolve as well now that
you've got your machine um how are you
supposed to install and configure
everything uh if you're a tech expert
you're familiar with the common line
interface this should be very easy for
you if you're not I've got some great
news we've now I've got a good amount of
um easy to use tools with graphical user
interfaces and automation so you should
be using those um I'm not going to be
naming names here but if uh if you want
I can give you a few after the talk uh
use those tools they're much easier than
anything else so you've got your machine
you plugged it in uh it's installed uh
and it's running how do you know it it's
working um one of the challenges that
many people uh are having is simply
accessing your client logs so getting to
to reach the log and trying to figure
out like what this log message mean is
uh quite challenging unfortunately I
wish I wish these uh these some of these
Dev would make it uh easier for us to
reach um but uh eventually you'll figure
out that uh you're not your Note is
syncing and it's um sync is completed I
like this little known website called
Beacon chain just go there put your
validator keys in you'll see if your
validator is at uh is active and working
properly this one is interesting um this
is probably the biggest challenge people
will face um hopefully not too many not
too many people will do uh networking
can be quite uh challenging uh so you
plug your machine in your uh home uh
internet and then suddenly you can't
watch Netflix anymore which is not great
um some people also have are having
issues like with their Zoom meeting they
can connect with their colleague and
meet them face to face uh networking can
be quite challenging these ethereum
clients they're connecting with a bunch
of peers and some of the
ISP uh around the worlds are giving you
like the cheapest modem router combo out
there so they can be uh they can be
networking uh device that are uh
struggling we don't have a good solution
for this one if you want to talk about
this please come and see me we're trying
to recommend some custom router but just
bridging that with the isps out there
can be a very
difficult debugging maintenance and
updates uh can also be challenging
sometimes your machine will just stop
overnight uh use some of this Tool uh
that I've been talking about the the
tool that makes it easy to install and
set up everything they often have like
sections on how to debug everything
requirements are changing uh you might
need to upgrade your SSD so um there's a
few proposal to try to keep the
requirements low we should push for
those uh if not we have some good guid
to help you uh maintain your machine and
upgrade your devices the economics
around stickings are are still confusing
um whenever someone comes to me and ask
me like how am I uh how much API APR am
I supposed to make with this I tell them
3% but I don't even know like how much
I'm going to be making next year with my
own validator so uh yeah if um if you
are uh staking make sure that uh you
have a withdrawal address if you want to
get out eventually and potentially like
create a um voluntary exit message so
that you can send it if there's
something happening to you maybe your
family can send it to you uh in in your
name and then you'll be able to recover
the balance that's
it thank you
Ry so any questions for
Remy how do I know that my setup is
secure and won't get hacked that's a
good question that's a very good
question um I mean the general good
practices that you would use for running
a server um in any kind of context are
are the ones that you'd want to follow
um I initially started writing a guide
on some of these system administration
um good practices I I haven't completed
it yet uh but like installing a firewall
helps uh making sure your machine uh is
kept up to date with all the um system
packages is also a good uh way to get
there any other question
yep wait wait wait
wait we have a mic for that so cool uh
so I'm based in a country that has
uh very high restrictions on the network
like something similar to like the great
firewall of China uh and like sinking
and things like that can be a problem
for me um do you guys have any
recommendations on like whether you
would use like a VPN some open source
VPN or a set up your own maybe like is
this something you see at all that's a
good question we haven't had many users
facing this uh issue but using a VPN
would essentially be the way to go um
setting up a VPN can be challenging if
you're not a tech expert but uh maybe
there's some there there's not that many
uh like commercial VPN offerings that
are good because you have to open ports
and then they don't like having people
using a bunch of these PTP connections
on on these VPN but like you can buy a
cheap uh VPS and then set it set up your
own uh if you need help we can uh help
you with that
one we have time for one more quick
question somebody wants
well we have
one hi uh are there any clients um that
are most recommended for beginners can
you repeat please are there any clients
uh that are most recommended for
beginners for what beginners uh
beginners um I think all the clients are
pretty good uh installing them uh can be
a challenge but like like you should be
really using some of these tools uh that
are making this very easy to to install
if if you want to talk with me
afterwards I can give you a few
suggestion for the tooling around
it thank
you he thank you Remy please welcome to
the stage