This article is for educational purposes only. A beacon chain is a future Ethereum 2.0 relay connecting shard chains. There's literally no value in running a beacon chain currently as there are no shards yet and there's no other functionality on the beacon chain available. But it's new technology, and who's not excited about playing around with it? To bootstrap a new, custom beacon chain, we would need to cover the following topics: The deposit contract ceremony The beacon...