Original title: " He left a strange message in the first block of Ethereum 2.0 "
Original translation: Babbitt
The Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain was released on the evening of December 1st, marking the first step in the expansion and upgrade of the world's second largest blockchain by market capitalization.
While Ethereum 2.0 is on schedule, there is one surprise. In the first block of Ethereum 2.0, a message was written that no one could understand. It seems odd that the message didn’t pay homage to the birth of Ethereum 2.0, nor did it point to the woes of a bank bailout.
Vitalik Buterin tweeted the message: "Normal: We should put something meaningful in the first block of the Ethereum PoS chain things, such as a major leap for mankind, etc. However, the Ethereum community: ”
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This message The content is: "Mr. F is here."
This information is written in the "graffiti" part of the block, which allows the verifier to write information, Similar to the part of a Bitcoin block where miners can leave messages.
But what does this message actually mean? Who is Mr. F?
At first, some thought the name came from the fifth episode of the third season of the hit TV series Arrested Development. In the show, no one knew who Mr. F was until it was discovered to be an inappropriate acronym.
But it turns out that Mr. F's source is quite different.
According to a screenshot of a Discord conversation, an anonymous entity named Mr. Fahrenheit is alleged to have created the first block of Ethereum 2.0. Before Ethereum 2.0 went online, he asked: "Am I block 0 or block 1?"
After finding out that he created the creation area After the block, Mr. Fahrenheit also asked himself what he should write, "If I complain about Bitcoin, is it okay to compare it to a typewriter?"
But obviously he ended up A decision has been made.
Mr. Fahrenheit is a decentralized application (dapp) developer. Before entering the TRON blockchain, he was proficient in the Ethereum ecosystem. In January 2019, he took charge of the Tron Shrimp team, which created a dapp called Tron Shrimp Farm on the TRON blockchain. The dapp was once very popular, growing to 31,671 users in one day, but is no longer active.
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