The Ethereum community shall 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 attributable to 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 will likely 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 comparable to Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.
As an Ethereum consumer or ether holder is there something I have to do?
In case you use an trade (comparable to Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an online pockets service (comparable to Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cellular pockets service (comparable to Coinbase Pockets, Standing.im, or Belief Pockets), or a {hardware} pockets (comparable to Ledger, Trezor, or KeepKey) you do not want to do something except you’re knowledgeable to take extra steps by your trade or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I have to 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 will discover that weblog put up here.
Thank You!
An enormous because of the Ethereum group 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 put up and proceed to take part, it is best to be sure you perceive the way it impacts you. It is best 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 put up and suggestions usually are not a sale of any form and don’t create any warranties of any form together with however not restricted to any regarding the Ethereum community or the Ethereum purchasers referred to herein.
