Almost 60% of Ethereum Miners Have Upgraded to Support the Hardfork
After more than a month of raging debate, Ethereum’s community has reached a conclusive decision. Ethereum will Hardfork. Some tense hours yesterday raised the prospect of a protracted fight, but, Ethpool cleared any doubt by announcing they are to support the hardfork: “[A]ccording to our voting policy stated in the announcement, we will support the hard fork.” Dwarfpool, Etherpool/Etherminer, Coinotron, Nanopool, MiningPoolClub, Alpereum and Eth.pp.ua support the fork in certain terms. In combination, they control about 60% of the hashrate, ensuring the chain they work upon is the....
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In just three days, Ethereum is to undertake the first of its kind hardfork in the digital currency space. With Geth, Parity and Mist all having a hardfork release, all eyes are now on the miners. Ethpool/Ethermine was the first to open the decision to miners with more than 81% voting in support of the hardfork on both pools. Dwarfpool, currently the biggest ethereum miner, followed, with more than 72% supporting the fork. Peter from Ethpool/Etherminer, speaking to CCN, stated: “[T]esting will start tomorrow and all mining nodes will be upgraded by Tuesday according to the result of the....
Almost 60% of Ethereum miners have upgraded to support Ethereum’s historical hardfork, reaching a conclusive and final decision in alignment with the wishes of Ethereum holders who voted overwhelmingly in favor of the fork, with 87% supporting the restoration of stolen property to their rightful owners. All big western pools held a vote, showing a new system of governance in the blockchain space. Overall, almost 80% of miners in all pools voted in favor, with 85% of miners on Dwarfpool, Ethereum’s biggest pool, voting in support of the fork. In contrast, F2pool and BW, both Chinese pools,....
Ethereum classic (ETC) has seen a rally in the last 24 hours, in a massive reversal of fortunes. Ethereum classic is a result of the forking of the Ethereum which, ironically, comes from a decision by the Ethereum foundation to fork Ethereum to try to restore the money lost in the DAO hacking incident earlier on. In a message released by the promoters of Ethereum Classic they made their intentions clear: they do not accept the fork which was made to reimburse DAO investors. They say: “The Ethereum Foundation responded to the DAO debacle in the worst way possible. Special interests....
Ethereum has achieved what some said was impossible. A controversial hardfork has just successfully completed. Ethereum’s price jumped yesterday when the fork became fairly certain. It continued to rally today with price enjoying an astonishing increase once the fork was successfully completed. After a month of heated debate, Ethereum’s community quickly came together with an incredible 87% of Eth holders voting in support of the hardfork. Miners likewise showed an overall 80% vote in favor. The entire ecosystem, including all businesses, miners, and node operators, upgraded in just three....
Ethereum’s community has reached a general understanding that the best way to move forward and address the month long dos of the network is a quick hardfork. A matter of urgency has been added following a recent backlog of more than 12,000 transactions and some miners opting in for zero transaction blocks. Gavin Wood, founder of Ethcore, maintainers of Parity, the second most used ethereum client, publicly stated yesterday: The EIP150.c1 hard fork is being targeted for Monday. We have a candidate branch and will be releasing a fork-ready client as soon as there are proper consensus tests.....