The Ethereum community can be present process a scheduled improve at block quantity 9,200,000, which is predicted to happen on Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The precise date is topic to alter on account of variable block instances and timezones.
Please improve your node earlier than Wednesday, December 30, 2019 to account for the variable block instances
Ethernodes.org has kindly supplied Istanbul node statistics and a countdown timer positioned at https://ethernodes.org/muir_glacier. etherscan.io has supplied a countdown timer positioned at https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/9200000. You’ll be able to monitor the community improve in actual time at http://forkmon.ethdevops.io/ (it is going to be up to date shortly earlier than the fork).
What’s Muir Glacier?
Muir Glacier is the title given to this community improve. Earlier community upgrades have been given different names corresponding to Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.
As an Ethereum consumer or ether holder is there something I must do?
If you happen to use an alternate (corresponding to Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an online pockets service (corresponding to Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cellular pockets service (corresponding to Coinbase Pockets, Standing.im, or Belief Pockets), or a {hardware} pockets (corresponding to Ledger, Trezor, or KeepKey) you do not want to do something except you’re knowledgeable to take further steps by your alternate or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I must do?
Obtain the most recent model of your Ethereum consumer:
NOTE: Concord (ethereumJ) is now a deprecated consumer and won’t be supporting Istanbul. Besu is a mainnet suitable Ethereum consumer written in Java.
The place can I be taught extra about this improve?
The Ethereum Cat Herders have put collectively a weblog put up which outlines why we’re upgrading the community and what modifications are going into the improve. You could find that weblog put up right here.
Thank You!
An enormous because of the Ethereum neighborhood and to all Ethereum builders throughout all shoppers and platforms who got here collectively to offer enter, ideas, and contribution.
DISCLAIMER: That is an emergent and evolving extremely technical area. If you happen to select to implement the suggestions on this put up and proceed to take part, you need to be sure to perceive the way it impacts you. It is best to perceive that there are dangers concerned together with however not restricted to dangers like surprising bugs. By selecting to implement these suggestions, you alone assume the dangers of the implications. This put up and suggestions will not be a sale of any form and don’t create any warranties of any form together with however not restricted to any referring to the Ethereum community or the Ethereum shoppers referred to herein.
