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Ethereum Successfully Completes Its Istanbul Hard Fork

Great news for the Ethereum community: the network’s Istanbul improvement has been successfully completed. Expected to increase the speed of the Ethereum network and its gas efficiency, the hard fork was activated at block number 9,069,000. #Ethereum's #Istanbul network upgrade is now live! Congratulations to everyone who worked to make it happen. Want to learn more? Check out details on Istanbul's included changes here: https://t.co/KIMLb0ujce — Ethereum (@ethereum) December 8, 2019...

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Ethereum Developers Propose Hard Fork to Delay the Network’s ‘Ice Age’

The team of Ethereum developers has announced a proposal for a new hard fork which is expected to solve problems currently associated with the Ice Age. In a recently published Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) – EIP 2387 – authored by developer James Hancock, the new hard fork if deployed, would significantly “postpone” the coming of the Ice Age. Muir Glacier is named after a glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, located in Alaska.Hancock explains that the Ethereum network is...

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