Ethereum Merge in trouble? Developers find bugs ahead of the planned update
Ethereum developer Péter Szilágyi announced that there was a bug that resulted in data loss in the latest release. While the upcoming ETH Merge is one of the most anticipated events in the crypto community at the moment, it's not free from hiccups. However, Ethereum developers are quick to respond to the issues that arise.Péter Szilágyi, an Ethereum (ETH) software developer, has announced on Twitter that they have found a regression that results in a corrupted state. He explained that it was probably one of the pull requests that was merged toward the new storage model or online pruner. In....
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