Ethereum developers during the next video conference reached an agreement regarding the room block, which will be activated updating of Constantinople. It is reported by CoinDesk.
To activate hard forks was chosen as the unit 7,080,000. Estimated release Manager Parity Africa Sedona it will be produced in the period from 14 to 18 January.
Updates required for upgrade activation code will appear in the next releases. In addition, the head of the security Department of the Ethereum Foundation Martin Svend said that the new version of the client go-ethereum will contain a kind of “emergency switch”, which will postpone the upgrade if something goes wrong.
Originally scheduled for November hardwork Constantinople contains a number of changes and code optimizations. In particular, they include the transfer for 18 months so-called “bombs of complexity”, which facilitates timely upgrades and also suggested a decrease in awards to miners from 3 to 2 ETH for the extracted block.
The participants also discussed the implementation of the code ProgPoW aimed at combating ASIC miners. Despite the fact that the work in this direction progressively, developers have not yet come to a consensus regarding what do I need to include this code in a new version.
Among other things discussed the ethereum update 1x, implementation of which is scheduled for 2019. Several working groups shared their achievements, stressing that the decision is still in the very early stages of development.
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