Just 48 hours before the planned Constantinople hard fork for Ethereum the brakes were anchored on as a network code vulnerability was discovered. The price of Ethereum took a dive and the upgrade was postponed until the end of this month. As we approach the new date for Constantinople, Ethereum is holding steady while most…
The wait is over. After over a month-long delay, the Ethereum blockchain finally forked and activated Constantinople. These are exciting times for the Ethereum community. The Constantinople upgrade proposes to remove significant technical roadblocks that – till date – hampered the project’s growth. First, the Hard Fork paves the way for Ethereum’s broadly delayed scaling…
Ethereum Core developers announced on Tuesday that they would postpone their much-awaited Constantinople hard fork. The team, which has previously settled January 16 as the official date for the Ethereum blockchain upgrade, decided to delay it after ChainSecurity found potential vulnerabilities in the code. The Switzerland-based blockchain audit firm said that Constantinople would enable “reentrancy…
Although Ethereum is currently seeing a price drop due to its highly-anticipated Constantinople hard fork being delayed, it will still likely prove to be a positive event for the cryptocurrency’s price once the security flaws are smoothed out and it is implemented. Investors will not know until Friday when the new scheduled date for the…