Back in 2020, Reddit launched Community Points, an initiative that rewarded high-quality posters by giving them Ethereum-based tokens that could be spent on badges and emojis on the platform. At the time, the experiment seemed fun and allowed users of the platform to show off their flair in a way that proved that they had...Read More
The Zhejiang public testnet is going live on Feb. 1 at 15.00 UTC, according to an Ethereum developer who posted the update on Jan. 31. The testnet will give users a first taste of the withdrawal process and network functionality after the Shanghai upgrade, which is slated for March. However, users won’t actually be able...Read More
The minable version of Ethereum has garnered a lot of attention since it spawned as a hard fork this time last month. In a move remnant to the 2017 genesis of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) from its big brother, EthereumPoW may have started another fork war between proponents of each respected network. The fork was spawned...Read More
Ethereum’s ninth shadow fork went live in the early hours of July 15, marking one of the final testing stages before the big event. Ethereum developers have been running a series of test forks replicating data from the mainnet into the testing environment in preparation for the final Merge. A shadow fork is a smaller...Read More
Since EIP-1559 took effect in August, Ethereum has now burned over 1 million Ether from circulation. At today’s prices, that’s over $4.2 billion in value. Torching The Ethereum Network Data from Watch The Burn reveals the Ethereum network’s achievement of this latest milestone. At the time of writing, it shows that 1 002 000 ETH...Read More
Less than two months after its latest network upgrade, Ethereum Classic plans to undergo another one on November 29th. Dubbed Thanos, the new hard fork will enhance security while maintaining its compatibility with Ethereum. Thanos Is An Inevitable ETC Network Upgrade The Ethereum Classic team would like to quickly forget the summer of 2020. In...Read More
The Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain was subject to some rearrangement on August 1, as 3,693 of its blocks were “reorged” in what was first thought to be a 51% attack. The reorganization caused a chain split, which saw one miner process all the blocks over a period of 12 hours. Upon further investigation, the reorganization...Read More
The beginning of the new year will deliver a new hard fork for Ethereum, called Muir Glacier. Just a few weeks after the last one (Istanbul), the new fork should address the issues left from it and is supposed to happen on Wednesday, January 1st, 2020. Muir Glacier To Start 2020 According to the official...Read More
With the long-awaited Istanbul hard fork now live on the Ethereum blockchain, the network will undergo an emergency hard fork in two weeks to resolve an old issue that seems to be pressurizing the entire ecosystem. The Istanbul update aims to solve issues like rebalancing gas costs, more privacy, and interoperability with cryptocurrencies like Zcash....Read More
