Main things to know about this release:
- You CANNOT upgrade your existing Erigon database that was built by one of the previous beta releases. You need to sync from scratch.
- Currently, to build this alpha code, go 1.18 is required. We have a workaround for 1.17, but it is not in this version.
- If you are a “casual user”, you do not need to run RPC daemon in a separate process, but instead use the embedded RPC daemon, which is on by default (can be turned off by http false command line flag)
- BitTorrent protocol gets involved to download most of the headers and blocks (turned by default for Ethereum main net, Görli testnet and BSC main net). By default download rate limit is 8mb/s is upload rate is 4mb/s, can be changed by torrent.download.rate and torrent.upload.rate. In the current code, BitTorrent DHT is not used. There are some seeders that have been bootstrapped, but the more nodes join the network, the quicker the download will be for everyone else.