Posts Tagged ‘Ethereum hardfork’

Ethereum (ETH) Hardfork Incoming to Fix The Latest Issues

14, Oct 2016

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In the last weeks Ethereum and its network have been the target of a constant attacks resulting in various issues and disruption of the normal operation of the network and users having trouble with transactions. The attacker(s) apparently have been very crafty in locating vulnerabilities in the client implementations as well as the protocol specification and abusing them in order to make things hard for everyone else mining or using Ethereum. According to the Ethereum developers the most visible consequence of the attacks for most users is that they are having difficulties getting transactions included in blocks, and full nodes are facing memory limitations in managing the bloated state. This needs to be addressed with a hardfork and that hard fork was initially planned to happen at block 2457000, but has since been postponed for block 2463000 to allow for more testing of the new code before it becoming live. This is supposed to happen sometime around the coming Tuesday, October 18th. Do note that around that time some exchanges may temporary disable Ethereum (ETH) trading and withdraws/deposits in order to avoid possible issues when the hardfork hits, so make sure to be careful operating with any Ethereum coins around that time.

– For more details about the upcoming Ethereum (ETH) hardfork on the official blog…

Ethereum Hard Fork is Now Planned For 20th of July

15, Jul 2016

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The plans for the upcoming Ethereum hard fork that is designed to fix the issues around the DAO situation have been published, with the hard fork planne to take place at block number 1922000 that should hit around 20th of July though it may depend on your time zone. The idea is to have the hard fork take place shortly before the 21.07, which is the date in which the DAO attacker can split. Some of the Ethereum clients such as Parity and the most widely used Geth have a hard-fork implementation for The DAO now, though they have not released updates for the hard fork yet. Other clients like pyethereum, or libethereum already started their implementations of the hard-fork, so it is certain that they will release a new version including the hard fork with the same date. Do note that you will need to update your local Ethereum client before the planned block in order to ensure that you will be able to continue using it after block 1922000. With hard forks you need to update your client in order for it to continue operating properly on the network as it includes mandatory changes making older releases incompatible.

Ethereum is also extending their bounty program to include vulnerabilities found in the hard fork specification. This includes the specification itself, the associated smart contract code that is defined in the specification, and the implementations in geth, cpp-ethereum, parity, and pyethapp clients. So people that find issues in the code and report them can be rewarded for their efforts and at the same time they will be making Ethereum safer and more problem free for use in the future.

– To read more details about the upcoming hard fork of Ethereum intended to resolve the DAO situation…

Make Sure Your Ethereum Client is Ready for the Homestead Hardfork

14, Mar 2016

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With just a few hundred blocks left before we reach the Ethereum hardfork planned for block 1150000 you should make sure you have updated any local geth or eth clients you are running, including any version of the GUI wallet. With this hardfork Ethereum will move to the next phase called Homestead – the second major version release of the Ethereum platform, which includes several protocol changes and a networking change that requires the hardfork.

The latest Go Ethereum (geth) with Homestead support is release 1.3.5 and the latest C++ version of Ethereum (eth) with Homestead support is version 1.2.2. A large number of the Ethereum nodes have already been updated, but there are still some that are running older versions of the software that are not ready for the hardfork. The latest official Ethereum GUI Wallet with Homestead support is 0.5.2 (Beta 10), so if you are using it make sure you also have the latest version installed in order to avoid any possible issues associated with the hardfork.

– To download the latest Ethereum Go client geth version 1.3.5 (Homestead)…
– To download the latest Ethereum C++ eth client version 1.2.2 (Homestead)…
– To download the latest Ethereum GUI Wallet 0.5.2 Beta 10 (Homestead)…


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