Testing hard forks Constantinople failed. Rumors about the sabotage of the miners
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Recall, is one of the most important improvements for Ethereum in the near future. The main change is a decrease in the reward for the block from 3 to 2 ETH. According to the supporter of hard forks Eric Conner, a 33-percent reduction of rewards will positively affect the inflation cryptocurrency, which is now fixed at 7.4 percent per year.
However, yesterday the developers of Ethereum Foundation some delays with hardforum. At the moment the situation turns out, but the Internet is already spreading rumors about the failure of activation Constantinople. Say, hardwork will not be commissioned until the end of 2018.
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The Main testnet Ropsten Ethereum at the moment is not in working condition. Recall, the developers of Ethereum Foundation planned to activate hardwork Constantinople 4 230 000 unit. Previous unit testnet could not get, but after a couple of hours miners is managed. However, in the next block had no transactions.
The Manager of the client Parity of African Shoden explained that the reason for the delay was the lack of the necessary number of miners in the network. Simply put, many are not able to upgrade to a newer version to activate Constantinople. It also said one of the programmers in the public channel .
The fact that the clients «stuck» means no valid block Constantinople. For the future: never make forks for the weekend.
After two hours of anxious waiting 4 230 000 block Ropsten was produced. But rejoice too early — in the first block after hard forks not revealed the transaction. The developers urged the miners not to sabotage the process and to reach consensus. Shoden summed up the situation in a short tweet.
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