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The Solana validator community celebrates the third birthday of the Solana blockchain!  Anatoly joins the call to review new testing improvements.  Lucas from Jito presents their findings on spam transactions on the blockchain.

00:00 Intro and Agenda
00:31 Happy Birthday Solana!
01:00 Testnet restart on 1.13.6
01:51 Anatoly talks testing
07:18 Jito presents spam findings
32:00 Open discussion

Chat logs:
Tim Garcia: Blog post on testing https://solana.com/news/plans-to-improve-the-network-upgrades
melea crypto: Share link
Tim Garcia: mev spam investigation: https://medium.com/@Jito-Foundation/solving-the-mev-problem-on-solana-a-guide-for-stakers-7768308e93bc
melea crypto: Ty
Brian Smith: Presentation link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P9rA4NpC8ENBwn88LeV4VtDFc1Kxd9AY/view?usp=share_link
Overclock Validator: Why is spamming still a helpful strategy?
melea crypto: We are going to jito very soon !
Dan Albert: where can a validator see what other nodes are running jito-solana?  it would be helpful for adoption for public nodes to see which of their peers are already running jito, to gain comfort.
Brian Long: validators.app shows Jito validators!
Blake Bartenbach: Nice!
Brian Smith: https://jito.retool.com/embedded/public/3557dd68-f772-4f4f-8a7b-f479941dba02
Brian Smith: Validators.app, manystake, the above link and other sites hopefully soon will all flag Jito for awareness
Brian Long: See https://www.validators.app/validators?locale=en&network=mainnet&order=stake & look for the "Jito" toggle
Blake Bartenbach: Yep, I was going to say, I thought ManyStake also did https://www.manystake.com/validator-view?client=jito
Nick Garfield: Looking forward to jito-client!
Overclock Validator: Bullish on fee per cu base fee
Cyrial Kamda: ^
Overclock Validator: Sry gotta shill
Blake Bartenbach: Sorry, it's not always clear - who is Lucas B on Discord?
Ben Hawkins: Yeah economic incentives to make more compute efficient txns would make a lot of sense.
Tim Garcia: buffalu#8451
Blake Bartenbach: Oh that's buffalu! Okay, thank you!
Brian Long: Stats from Block Logic in the last hour:
212998 dropped_txs
73750 dropped_txs_WouldExceedBlockMaxLimit
139248 dropped_txs_WouldExceedAccountMaxLimit
Ben Hawkins: I've found that fee priority doesn't work reliably. e.g. higher fee doesn''t always beat out lower fee.
Sam Legends: Is there any public charts that show the % of dropped transactions?
Brian Long: Sam, no. That data exists only on the validators.
Sam Legends: Thanks Brian
Ben Hawkins: Further more, each validator view of dropped txns is different
Dan Albert: Anybody want to take a crack at updating the `solana validators` CLI to reflect solana vs jito-solana usage in the version readout?
Brian Smith: Discord link: https://discord.gg/jito
melea crypto: Thanks, nice presentation
Emilio Oberg: fix mic
Max Sherwood: Yeah Im here but outdoors haha
Blake Bartenbach: Dan - would be nice if the RPC service could return that information. getVersion doesn't differentiate currently.
Blake Bartenbach: Not sure if that's the source of making that happen
Dan Albert: yeah, makes sense.  PRs always open.  not sure if getVersion statically points to the labs repo or what.  haven't looked.
Dan Albert: or could pull from whatever build sha
Chris R: Initial focus is on follow-ups to post-mortem, will also add new topics as people propose them over time. Pull meaningful conversations out of Discord and provide some focus to help make them actionable.
Dan Albert: https://twitter.com/DanPaul000/status/1635763828385529857

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Solana Community Validator Discussion - March 16 2023