The developers of Ethereum in the last video decided to activate hardwork Constantinople at unit No. 7080000 that can be produced in the period from 14 to 18 January 2019. In addition, they discussed the update ProgPoW by which the network may obtain protection from ASIC mining, but its implementation is still open. Also working groups update 1x Ethereum, spoke about the first steps in this direction.
Recall that the initial activation of the second part of hard forks Metropolis was scheduled for October at the block # 4230000, but the miners sabotaged the activation Constantinople in the test network Ropsten – and it pushed first for a few days, then November and finally decided to move to the middle of January.
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