The upcoming Ethereum hardwork called Constantinople will be activated in a test network in early October, however, the timing of an upgrade in the core network is still not determined. These were the findings of a videoconference, held on Friday leading developers this second the capitalization of cryptocurrency, according to CoinDesk.
Characteristics of the test network Ropsten close to the main Ethereum, allowing a safe environment to conduct various tests. At the same time because of its fickle nature the exact block number where the code will be activated Constantinople, has not yet been confirmed. Tentative date for hard forks in the test network 9 Oct.
Also remains unclear is the time to upgrade in the core network – this is expected to happen in November or December. At least, such a proposal was made by the head of communications at Ethereum Foundation Hudson Jameson.
Previously it was assumed that the activation of Constantinople in the main Ethereum will be held prior to the conference Devcon4, which will be held from 30 October to 2 November in Prague. In addition, this week’s code Constantinople were integrated into the Ethereum client Parity.
In discussing this question, acne Buterin, who also participated in the discussion, noted that “the bomb of complexity” is a code element that are slowing down the Ethereum blockchain and thus stimulating developers to ensure timely release of updates is not expected to have a significant influence on the network for at least several months. Therefore Buterin, need urgent activation, Constantinople no.
“This is absolutely not urgent. Probably, we still have three months or even more,” he said.
Also today, the developers discussed possible suggestions to improve the Protocol for the following hard forks under the name Istanbul, which is expected to take place 8 months after activation Constantinople.
In particular, the discussion was about whether Ethereum to change the mechanism of consensus Proof-of-Work in such a way as to reduce the effectiveness of mining on specialized ASIC-devices. A consensus on this issue, the developers have not yet come, and meanwhile the researcher Danny Ryan recalled that the consolidation of the foundations of Casper offers designed to help Ethereum go to algorithm Proof-of-Stake.
On the previous video conferencing developers of Ethereum on 31 August, the participants agreed with the proposal EIP-1234, providing a reduction in the emission of new coins in the block with the current 2 ETH 3 to ETH.
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