Istanbul hard fork date set for Ethereum blockchain – December 4, 2019

Ethereum developers have planned activation of Istanbul hard fork in the main network to block # 9 056 000. Miners will get it tentatively on December 4.

As the deployment of Ethereum 2.0 approaches, the community begins to pay closer attention to other changes in the ecosystem.

While Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently spoke about recent changes to the sharding protocol, PegaSys Protocol Engineering product manager Tim Beiko shared another update regarding the upcoming Istanbul hard fork.

“Of course, there may still be progress, but there is already a clear consensus that December 4 will be the date of a hard fork. We will keep it in mind on January 8th if something goes wrong (* cough * Petersburg! * Cough *)!

So Istanbul will be held in early December! ”

In addition, Beiko emphasized that the development of Ethereum will be aimed at the release of EIP-2124, a fork identifier for checking network compatibility and an alternative to the discovery protocol. The innovation was “@ peter_szilagyi’s idea that customers communicate with each other based on the entire history of the forks, not just the genesis.”

In this regard, part of the community intends to establish a connection between the genesis and EIP-2124, which can simplify the identification of the user's current network.

Publication date 10/27/2019
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