Ethereum Watch

Developers are eyeing January 16th as the date on which Constantinople, ethereum’s upcoming network hard fork, could launch. Advertisements The upgrade for the world’s second-largest blockchain was originally targeted for November, bringing with it a host of design changes aimed at streamlining the platform’s code in a bid to boost performance. Yet the November launch […]

Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

Advertisements Source: CoinDesk

Ethereum classic (ETC) is set to fork in the coming days as part of a bid to diffuse a so-called ‘bomb’ in its code. Advertisements Set for block 5,900,000, the change, in which all users of the original ethereum blockchain will need to update their software, is meant to disable a feature that is designed to […]

There is “no right answer” to ethereum’s fund recovery debate. Advertisements The words were spoken by Preethi Kasireddy, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and former software engineer at Coinbase, during the ethereum community conference EDCON on May 4. As the debate rages over whether ethereum should hard fork to return funds lost on the platform, […]

Parity Technologies issued a statement Thursday stating it has no plans to move forward with a code change that would result in an ethereum blockchain split. Advertisements Named EIP-999, the contentious code change would recover the $264 million lost due to a code fault in Parity wallets in November 2017. Signed by co-founder of the […]

Ethereum may be on the brink of a blockchain split. Advertisements At least, that was the mood at a meeting of top ethereum developers late last week where a discussion around a code proposal called EIP-999 led some to speculate that the creation of two competing blockchains is now a possibility. Indeed, it’s now believed the […]