From 5934f07badbd605d26d04f47df3ae0f1c40dfa9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Vorotnikov Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 23:22:57 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update README.md --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 42bc281..6da1d6a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ It depends heavily on a working Erigon installation with Otterscan patches appli ### Install Erigon -You will need an Erigon installation with Otterscan patches. Since setting up an Erigon environment itself can take some work, make sure to follow their instructions and have a working archive node before continuing. +You will need an Erigon executing node (`erigon`). Also you will need Erigon RPC daemon (`rpcdaemon`) with Otterscan patches. Since setting up an Erigon environment itself can take some work, make sure to follow their instructions and have a working archive node before continuing. My personal experience: at the moment of this writing (~block 12,700,000), setting up an archive node takes over 5-6 days and ~1.3 TB of SSD. @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ You can make sure it is working correctly if the homepage is able to show the la To the [Geth](https://geth.ethereum.org/) team whose code Erigon is based on. -To the [Erigon](https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon) team that made possible for regular humans to run an archive node in a retail laptop. Also, they have been very helpful explaining Erigon's internals which made possible the modifications Otterscan requires. +To the [Erigon](https://github.com/ledgerwatch/erigon) team that made it possible for regular humans to run an archive node in a retail laptop. Also, they have been very helpful explaining Erigon's internals which made the modifications Otterscan requires possible. To the [mdbx](https://github.com/erthink/libmdbx) team which is the blazingly fast database that empowers Erigon. From 90f358d14a2a82876f97f4ac2b04f749e74d1374 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Artem Vorotnikov Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 00:29:31 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update README.md --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6da1d6a..fe2ca05 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ We've implemented some custom methods at rpcdaemon level, less information is ne Current offerings are either closed source or lack many features the most famous Ethereum block explorer has, or simply have high requirements like having an archive node + additional indexers. -Otterscan requires only a patched Erigon installation + running Otterscan itself (a simple React app), which makes it a laptop-friendly block explorer. +Otterscan requires only mainline Erigon executing node, patched Erigon RPC daemon and running Otterscan itself (a simple React app), which makes it a laptop-friendly block explorer. ## Why the name?