Here’s Why a Hard Fork Can’t Work
“It’s not about the economics,” says Alex Petrov of bitcoin cloud miner, Bitfury, in riposte to comments by Bitcoiner Roger Ver on changes to the bitcoin protocol. “You can have a different economical opinion or you can have a different economical theory, but it’s all about the software. This soft-fork and hard-fork. It’s the only way you are trying to offer the new solution for the whole community. In a soft-fork, it’s a restriction on allowed behavior. And then if people agree, they can activate the feature. If you are creating a hard-fork, it’s more complex. You are updating the....
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Reliable sources suggest that the successful execution of this three-year-in-the-making operation has served to unseat CoinDesk as the self proclaimed “world leader in news, prices and information on bitcoin and other digital currencies”, and propel NewsBTC to the top of the crypto food chain. Here’s what the puppet masters behind....
Ethereum’s DAO hard fork update landed on GitHub yesterday, allowing users to vote on whether they support the Hard fork that will refund the DAO after the attack that drained around four percent of the total Ethereum (approx. 50 million US dollars worth at the time) in circulation from the smart contract. Ethereum Reaches A Crossroads with Hard Fork Update. This hard fork update, if successful, would wipe one of the biggest failures to happen in the cryptocurrency ecosystem away, giving the people with a stake in The DAO (and others who suffered from the subsequent price depreciation of....
The highly anticipated Ethereum hard fork is expected to launch on August 4 at block height 12,965,000 according to Ethereum core developers. The London hard fork will add five Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) that aim to enhance the blockchain. However, the Berlin hard fork was postponed after a vulnerability was identified by the audit company Chainsecurity and the London hard fork could be delayed as well. London Hard Fork Scheduled for August 4, 2021 Ethereum’s London hard fork is one of the most long-awaited changes in quite some time and will follow the recently....
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.....
The Ethereum hard fork token (ETHW) has been popular after playing off the popularity of the Ethereum Merge. The fork was carried out in a bid to keep Ethereum in its original proof of work mechanism, and the ETHW token resulted from it. Chandler Guo is now known as the self-appointed organizer of the hard […]