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 because of variable block occasions and timezones.
Please improve your node earlier than Wednesday, December 30, 2019 to account for the variable block occasions
Ethernodes.org has kindly offered Istanbul node statistics and a countdown timer situated at https://ethernodes.org/muir_glacier. etherscan.io has offered a countdown timer situated at https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/9200000. You may 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 identify given to this community improve. Earlier community upgrades have been given different names corresponding to Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.
As an Ethereum person or ether holder is there something I must do?
In case you use an trade (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 don’t want to do something except you might be knowledgeable to take further steps by your trade or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I must do?
Obtain the newest model of your Ethereum shopper:
NOTE: Concord (ethereumJ) is now a deprecated shopper and won’t be supporting Istanbul. Besu is a mainnet suitable Ethereum shopper written in Java.
The place can I study extra about this improve?
The Ethereum Cat Herders have put collectively a weblog publish which outlines why we’re upgrading the community and what modifications are going into the improve. You’ll find that weblog publish here.
Thank You!
A giant due to the Ethereum neighborhood and to all Ethereum builders throughout all purchasers and platforms who got here collectively to offer enter, ideas, and contribution.
DISCLAIMER: That is an emergent and evolving extremely technical area. In case you select to implement the suggestions on this publish and proceed to take part, you must be sure you perceive the way it impacts you. You need to perceive that there are dangers concerned together with however not restricted to dangers like sudden bugs. By selecting to implement these suggestions, you alone assume the dangers of the results. This publish and suggestions are usually not a sale of any type and don’t create any warranties of any type together with however not restricted to any referring to the Ethereum community or the Ethereum purchasers referred to herein.
