Ethereum announced the testnet Ropsten would be closed in Q4 2022

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Hi community,

According to this Ethereum official announcement, the Ropsten will be closed in Q4 2022. The following is the light quote.

Ropsten: Q4 2022
The Ropsten testnet, which ran through The Merge on June 8, 2022, will be shut down in Q4 2022.
Developers who currently use Ropsten as a staging/testing environment should migrate to Goerli or Sepolia.

Now, I can see from the code that Blockcerts seems to support only the Ropsten in Ethereum testnets.

; cert-issuer/conf_ethtest.ini
chain = <ethereum_ropsten|ethereum_mainnet>

If so, I think it is time to start thinking about supporting the recommended testnets like Goerli or Sepolia.

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That’s a good info, thank you.

If you want to take the task over, I agree this should be deprecated. At this point I am not knowledgeable enough on the subject, but I assume it shouldn’t be a big change (probably just updating the RPC endpoints and the names).

If you don’t, I don’t have immediate availability to work on this, but I’ll keep a mental note to do it.

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Thanks for your reply.
Ok, I’ll try it. Please wait for a couple of weeks.

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Thank you for waiting.
I opened the following PRs. Could you review these?