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The Ethereum community is in emergency mode as showstoping findings from the Cornell team sent the soft-fork option out. The only choice now available is whether to hard-fork or not, a decision that must be made in just 16 days. DDos vulnerabilities were found in Ethereum’s softfork which allows an attacker to exploit the gas limit (comparable to bitcoin’s transaction fees) and, in effect, bring the whole network to a halt. Therefore, the “[s]oft fork is out” says George Hallam, spokesman for Ethereum’s foundation, speaking to CCN. The community now has to move incredibly quickly and make....

Ethereum’s price has shot back up, bringing cryptocurrency’s market capitalization past $13 billion and bringing Bitcoin’s portion down below 80% The price per Ether has risen to over $14 and its market cap from about $975 million to about $1.2 billion over the last week. Meanwhile, over the same time period Bitocin’s market cap fell from $10.5 billion to $10.28 billion, reducing its share of the global cryptocurrency market cap to below 80%. Ethereum’s successful hard fork, Coinbase integration. The partial price and market cap recovery can be traced to Ethereum’s successful hard fork.....

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....

With $250 million on the line, Ethereum is moving at lightspeed as the latest unsybilable miner voting shows they almost unanimously back the fork, with more than 90% in favor. Gavin Wood, founder of Ethcore, the company that develops Parity, one of Ethereum’s clients, confirmed the soft-fork has been merged stating: “[T]he development branch of the Parity codebase now includes some functionality to allow miners to block certain transactions.” The softfork is still waiting to be merged in Go, the Ethereum client used by most users. Jeffrey Wilcke, an ethereum founder and lead developer of....

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....