Members of ethereum's open-source development team have reached agreement on an activation time for Constantinople, a proposed code change designed to give users the option to update the blockchain with additional features.
Speaking at a bi-weekly core developer meeting Friday, the developers assembled agreed on block 7,080,000 on the ethereum blockchain as an activation point at which users would be able to elect to upgrade to the new code.
Put simply, should users choose to accept the change by upgrading their software, the update would go live when the block is mined.
According to estimates by release manager for the Parity Ethereum client, Afri Schoedon, this means Constantinople is expected to go live between January 14 and 18.
The block number is expected to be introduced onto the platform in the next batch of software updates.
Martin Holst Swende, security lead at the Ethereum Foundation and the go-ethereum client, said that the go-ethereum software release will also include an emergency switch to delay the upgrade in the event of any unexpected issues.
Speaking on the call, developers also discussed ProgPoW, a proposed change to ethereum's underlying proof-of-work algorithm that would block the use of specialized mining hardware, known as ASICs, from the network.
Developers also discussed ethereum 1x, another upgrade that is currently targeted for proposal in 2019.
"ProgPoW has not been decided as something we are definitely putting in or doing. Same with any of the working groups we discussed today," said Hudson Jameson, communications officer for the Ethereum Foundation.
Jameson also said that following discussions on social media, meetings concerning the roadmap for the ethereum 1x upgrade will now be conducted publicly.
Block 7,080,000: Ethereum Devs Propose Activation Point for Next Hard Fork
gepubliceerd op Dec 7, 2018
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