Tag Archives: Ethereum Forks

The minable version of Ethereum has garnered a lot of attention since it spawned as a hard fork this time last month. In a move remnant to the 2017 genesis of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) from its big brother, EthereumPoW may have started another fork war between proponents of each respected network. The fork was spawned by former Ethereum miner and ICO investor Chandler Guo, who tweeted on Oct. 14 that more than 100 projects have been launched on the network in just a month. now more...

Despite being touted by some as the natural continuation of Ethereum, which stayed on proof-of-work, EthereumPoW has had a rocky start. The first few days after the hard fork, it saw multiple technical bugs, while the native cryptocurrency plummeted by 90% in days. As the Ethereum Merge was coming close, Chandler Guo – a popular Chinese miner – proposed a hard fork that will see the creation of EthereumPoW – a duplicate version of the blockchain to continue to be based on...

Since EIP-1559 took effect in August, Ethereum has now burned over 1 million Ether from circulation. At today’s prices, that’s over $4.2 billion in value. Torching The Ethereum Network Data from Watch The Burn reveals the Ethereum network’s achievement of this latest milestone. At the time of writing, it shows that 1,002,000 ETH have been burned since the London hard fork on August 5th. The network has proven capable of maintaining its high burn rate, which saw its first $1...

Containing numerous Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs), including the vital 1559 and 3554, it’s worth exploring the key features of the upcoming London hard fork and how it could change the Ethereum network. Although it was initially scheduled to take place in July, a more recent statement from an Ethereum developer asserted that the London hard fork will occur on August 4th, 2021. Why Does the Ethereum Blockchain Need Improvements? Launched in 2015, the Ethereum network’s...

Less than two months after its latest network upgrade, Ethereum Classic plans to undergo another one on November 29th. Dubbed Thanos, the new hard fork will enhance security while maintaining its compatibility with Ethereum.Thanos Is An Inevitable ETC Network UpgradeThe Ethereum Classic team would like to quickly forget the summer of 2020. In the span of one month, the network was subject to three separate 51% attacks.The Ethereum Classic Core developer team and Ethereum Classic Labs decided...

The Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain was subject to some rearrangement on August 1, as 3,693 of its blocks were “reorged” in what was first thought to be a 51% attack. The reorganization caused a chain split, which saw one miner process all the blocks over a period of 12 hours. Upon further investigation, the reorganization of the Ethereum Classic is now deemed to be a non-malicious mistake by a miner with a bad internet connection and is in the process of being addressed. But due to the...

The beginning of the new year will deliver a new hard fork for Ethereum, called Muir Glacier. Just a few weeks after the last one (Istanbul), the new fork should address the issues left from it and is supposed to happen on Wednesday, January 1st, 2020.Muir Glacier To Start 2020According to the official announcement from the company, Ethereum’s newest upgrade is called Muir Glacier and will take place at block number 9,200,000, which should be on January 1st, 2020. However, the date might...

With the long-awaited Istanbul hard fork now live on the Ethereum blockchain, the network will undergo an emergency hard fork in two weeks to resolve an old issue that seems to be pressurizing the entire ecosystem. The Istanbul update aims to solve issues like rebalancing gas costs, more privacy, and interoperability with cryptocurrencies like Zcash. You can read what to expect from the latest improvements here.While the Istanbul hard fork introduces new features, Ethereum developers made a...