Ahead Of Today’s ETH Hard Fork, Exchange Alerts on Risk of Unintentional ETC Fork
Though Coinbase has warned its users about Ethereum network instability and some Bitcoin experts have begun to criticize the its security measures, the planned Ethereum hard fork at block 2463000 will still go as expected. According to Kraken Exchange, the fork which will introduce “changes to help protect against the recent DOS attacks on the network,” which will expectedly be reached on Tuesday October 18th 2016 PDT and it may pose a little risk for Ethereum Classic users. “The fork is expected to go very smoothly with the DOS-protected fork quickly becoming the dominant chain while the....
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Bitcoin developers are probing deeper into how best to execute a so-called hard fork, a contentious upgrading tool that's been at the heart of the nearly $16bn network's most divisive debate for years now. The issue is that to be used cleanly and without unintentional consequences, a hard fork requires all the digital currency's miners to move to a new blockchain, or version of its transaction history. One case study of what can otherwise happen came last summer, when ethereum inadvertently split into two networks after executing a hard fork some users disagreed with. That's not to say....
Ethereum has forked again, only this time, the event was unintentional. 2016 has been a rough year for the Bitcoin competitor. Things began in July after Ethereum enforced a hard fork following a DAO hack that ultimately cost the platform over $50 million in Ether funds. While the hard fork was supposed to bring people into a “new era” of Ethereum, customers reverted back to mining the original chain, and the work of the Ethereum executives went relatively unappreciated. The currency is now split into a newer wave of currency along with Classic Ethereum, leading to two separate entities.....
Kraken has announced plans to temporarily disable ETH deposits and withdrawals on its platform ahead of a planned hard fork. Kraken is the largest Bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity. It’s also trading in Canadian dollars, US dollars, British pounds and Japanese yen. The fork is slated tentatively for July 20. Traders in ETH, LTC, XRP, XLM, or XDG have been informed by the exchange that dealings in the currency will be disabled for approximately one hour before the hard fork activates. ETH deposits to be disabled 1 hour before the fork. Kraken notes via email: “As you may know,....
The Ethereum network’s hard fork, which many believed was an operation of risk, was carried out smoothly. On July 20, the Ethereum network successfully completed a hard fork as a result of an irregular state change that transferred nearly 12 million ether from the DAO into the WithdrawDAO recovery contract. The Ethereum network’s hard fork, which many believed was an operation of risk, was carried out smoothly. “The fork itself took place smoothly, with roughly 85% of miners mining on the fork,” explained Ethereum co-founder Ethereum. The successful completion of the Ethereum hard fork....
Last week, Ethereum announced a hardfork following a relentless, month-long denial of service attack. The proposed hardfork will occur at block 2,463,000, expected to be mined today, October 16. At the time of publishing, the Ethereum blockchain saw block #2,462,322 mined, by mining pool ethpool. In the lead-up to the hardfork, cryptocurrency exchanges have sought to update customers on how they plan to respond and adapt to the Ethereum hard fork. Prominent digital assets exchange Kraken has said that it expects the fork to occur without any disruption, “with the DOS-protected fork quickly....