Two Ethereum history clocks aged one day per day
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Ethereum has a five-month block-history rule. It does not have one five-month history clock.
A new draft EIP-8383 proposes cutting the minimum block-serving range from 33,024 epochs to 8,192, or from 146.8 days to 36.4 days at today's 12-second slots. I expected the current five-month boundary to roll forward with the chain. For most Lighthouse and Prysm peers in Xatu, it did not move at all.