The Ethereum community will bear a deliberate improve within the block quantity 9,200,000that are predicted to happen Wednesday, January 1, 2020. The precise date is topic to vary on account of variable time blocks and time zones.
Improve your node earlier than Wednesday, December 30, 2019 to account for variable block instances
Ethernodes.org has kindly supplied the Istanbul node statistics and timer situated at https://ethernodes.org/muir_glacier. etherscan.io he supplied a timer situated at https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/9200000. You possibly can comply with the community improve in actual time at http://forkmon.ethdevops.io/ (can 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 got different names akin to Istanbul, Constantinopleand A pretend dragon.
As an Ethereum person or ether proprietor do I have to do something?
Should you use an trade (akin to Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an internet pockets service (akin to Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cellular pockets service (akin to Coinbase Pockets, Standing.im, or Belief Pockets), or a {hardware} pockets ( akin to Ledger, Trezor, or KeepKey) you need not do something until your trade or pockets service tells you to take further steps.
As a node operator or miner, what ought to I do?
Obtain the newest model of your Ethereum consumer:
NOTE: Concord (ethereumJ) is now a deprecated consumer and won’t assist Istanbul. Besu is a mainnet suitable Ethereum consumer written in Java.
The place can I study extra about this improve?
The Ethereum Cat Herders we have put collectively a weblog put up that describes why we’re upgrading the community and what adjustments are going into the improve. Yow will discover that weblog put up right here.
Thanks!
Many due to the Ethereum group and all Ethereum builders throughout all purchasers and platforms who’ve come collectively to supply enter, ideas and enter.
WAIVER: It is a extremely technical area that’s creating and evolving. Should you resolve to use the suggestions on this put up and proceed to take part, you need to be sure to perceive the way it impacts you. It’s best to perceive that there are dangers together with however not restricted to dangers akin to sudden errors. By selecting to implement these suggestions, you assume the dangers of the results your self. This put up and suggestions will not be gross sales of any type and don’t create any warranties of any type together with however not restricted to these regarding the Ethereum community or Ethereum purchasers talked about herein.
