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cmd/utils: add deprecation warning for Rinkeby #24884

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@karalabe karalabe commented May 16, 2022 •
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TL;DR:

$ geth --rinkeby --syncmode=light console]

INFO [05-16|08:28:09.050] Starting Geth on Rinkeby testnet... 
INFO [05-16|08:28:09.050] Dropping default light client cache      provided=1024 updated=128
INFO [05-16|08:28:09.052] Maximum peer count                       ETH=0 LES=10 total=50
INFO [05-16|08:28:09.053] Set global gas cap                       cap=50,000,000
WARN [05-16|08:28:09.053]  
WARN [05-16|08:28:09.053] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
WARN [05-16|08:28:09.053] Please note, Rinkeby has been deprecated. It will still work for the time being, 
WARN [05-16|08:28:09.053] but there will be no further hard-forks shipped for it. Eventually the network 
WARN [05-16|08:28:09.053] will be permanently halted after the other networks transition through the merge 
WARN [05-16|08:28:09.053] and prove stable enough. For the most future proof testnet, choose Sepolia as 
WARN [05-16|08:28:09.053] your replacement environment (--sepolia instead of --rinkeby). 
WARN [05-16|08:28:09.053] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
WARN [05-16|08:28:09.053]  
INFO [05-16|08:28:09.053] Allocated cache and file handles         database=~/.ethereum/rinkeby/geth/lightchaindata cache=64.00MiB handles=524,288

@karalabe karalabe added this to the 1.10.18 milestone May 16, 2022
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Doesn't look good to me 😢
But approved

@karalabe karalabe merged commit fcbc05c into ethereum:master May 16, 2022
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ksaitor commented May 16, 2022

sadness :(

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Sadness : (

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Sad Day 🥲

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PatrickAlphaC commented May 16, 2022 •
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Welp... My upcoming 24-hour video is using Rinkeby.

Hopefully, the chain continues to work for at least for the next year 😢

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There's no immediate plan to terminate the chain. It won't happen prior to the next EL feature fork, which probably won't happen this year, so :)

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The Geth team is so based. Thank you @karalabe!!!

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q9f commented May 17, 2022

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sidhujag pushed a commit to syscoin/go-ethereum that referenced this pull request May 31, 2022
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Merge pull request ethereum#24884 from karalabe/deprecate-rinkeby
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cmd/utils: add deprecation warning for Rinkeby
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