Polygon ’s Blockchain Hard-Forked Without Warning To Closed-Source Genesis. Why?
What’s going on at Polygon? There seems to be a disturbance in the force over there. Is the Ethereum Layer 2 project alright? Are they doing everything above board or is there something sinister going on? Are they even decentralized if they can hard-fork just like that? Or did they follow the proper procedures and their critics are just uninformed? Can we even answer all of those questions? Probably not. But we can present all the information available and let you all get to your own conclusions. https://twitter.com/NathanWorsley_/status/1471097609486016512 Let’s start with DeFi Builder....
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The U.S. dollar value of the recently airdropped coin native to the forked Ethereum proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain will be at par with that of ether, Chandler Guo, the instigator of the latest Ethereum hard fork, has said. Guo added that he expects the value of the token, which is currently “very cheap,” to grow by 100x in ten years’ time.
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The Polygon team promised an explanation and here it is. A few weeks ago, the Ethereum Layer 2 network hard-forked their blockchain, seemingly without explanation. As usual, NewsBTC got to the bottom of the case and presented all of the available information. The only piece missing was a promised official report from Polygon’s experts. Is this it? Apparently so. Related Reading | Community Voted, Why Uniswap Will Be Deployed On Polygon Before we get into it, let’s remember Polygon’s co-founder Mihailo Bjelic’s explanation as reported by us: “We’re making an effort to improve....
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Experts believe that miners are hoarding more ETH in anticipation of price surges and forked PoW tokens. The Ethereum Merge is slated for Sept. 15, which will see the Ethereum blockchain move from its current proof-of-work (PoW) mining consensus to proof-of-stake (PoS). The Merge is being touted as one of the biggest upgrades for the Ethereum blockchain as it would help the network move to a more energy-efficient way of verifying transactions and eliminate PoW mining completely. With the Merge date approaching, Ether (ETH) miner's balance has touched a new four-year high.According to....