Ethereum Sets Date for Fourth Blockchain Fork
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....
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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.....
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....
The London hard fork sets Ethereum up for a new era as ETH price continues to make gains alongside a positive community reaction. The London hard fork of Ethereum, which went live on Aug. 5, ushered in a new era for the transition to Ethereum 2.0, a complete proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain. In fact, the London upgrade is the penultimate step on the way to the final transition to PoS scheduled sometime in 2022. The upgrade got triggered almost on time at 12:33 pm UTC at the block height of 12,965,000.Along with the highly anticipated Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559, this upgrade....
Co-founder of ethhub.io, Anthony Sassano, gives the Ethereum mainnet London hard fork a tentative Aug 4 rollout date. However, this depends on the success of the Rinkeby testnet, which is scheduled for release this Wednesday. Crypto YouTuber Lark Davies chimed in by saying it could be delayed months beyond Aug 4. But we’ll know more […]
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....