Ethereum's Fourth Fork: So Far, So Good
So far, developers are calling 'Spurious Dragon' a success. Ethereum's latest hard fork, officially activated at block 2,675,000 today, comes days after the code was first tested as a solution to ongoing network performance issues. Among other changes, the fork will give developers the ability to delete empty accounts left by an unknown attacker that had effectively flooded the network. While generally seen as a dangerous way to upgrade a blockchain (since it can lead to a network split if the proposed changes aren't accepted by everyone), ethereum's developers have embraced hard forks as....
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Other changes include the release of a stable Go API, as well as Android and iOS support for Geth. As most cryptocurrency users are well aware, Ethereum will undergo another hard fork. After a lot of discussion among developers, the decision was made to activate the fork at block 2,675,000. Multiple clients will be ready to accommodate this change, which marks another significant milestone for the Ethereum ecosystem. Every Ethereum hard fork has a rather unusual name, and the fourth one is no exception. Under the Spurious Dragon banner, this new fork will go into effect at block 2,675,000.....
Ethereum's developers have unveiled new details about a technical fork aimed at resolving lingering network issues. Officially merged into the code of the most popular ethereum client, the new rules will trigger at block number 2,675,000 — likely to occur sometime around Tuesday of next week. The update will erase empty accounts that unknown attackers used to bloat the ethereum blockchain by way of a hard fork, a process generally seen as a dangerous way of upgrading the software (all miners will need to upgrade to the new network). But according to some developers, the reality is more....
According to Roger Ver, the outcome of Ethereum’s hard fork was considered a good thing by the market. The cryptocurrency investor noted that, since the #2 cryptocurrency split into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic following the theft resulting from the hack of the DAO, the combined value of both forks is now equal to greater than the original total value of a unified Ethereum: Ethereum fork meant to isolate stolen funds. Following a hack of the DAO involving the theft of millions of Ether, the Ethereum community decided a hard fork was in the best interests of the cryptocurrency. The....
After a failed attempt to agree on a deadline for the proposed hard fork, which was supposed to be officially announced on Oct. 31, Ethereum developers have now chosen Tuesday Nov. 22, 2016 for the next and fourth hard fork. The Spurious Dragon hardfork is scheduled for block 2675000, which will likely occur between 15:00 and 16:00 UTC Tuesday evening (CET), a post on the Ethereum platform says. The post says: “The block number for the testnet “Morden” was scheduled at block 1885000… Performing the fork in the test network prior to performing it in the main network was an important measure....
Ethereum Classic is all set to get a hard fork of its own soon to counter the sustained DOS attack. Ethereum Classic is on its way to get a hard fork in the next two days. Ethereum recently split into two blockchains following a hard fork introduced by the Ethereum development team a few months ago. The hard fork resulted in two versions — Ethereum (ETH) and Ethereum Classic (ETC). While Ethereum continued to operate on the new fork, a portion of the cryptocurrency community decided to continue with the original Ethereum blockchain, calling it Ethereum Classic. Ethereum recently came under....