The Ethereum community will probably 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 vary resulting from 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 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/ (will probably 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 must do?
In the event you use an alternate (comparable to Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an online pockets service (comparable to Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cell 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 further steps by your alternate 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 appropriate Ethereum shopper 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. Yow will discover that weblog put up right here.
Thank You!
A giant because of the Ethereum group and to all Ethereum builders throughout all shoppers and platforms who got here collectively to supply enter, ideas, and contribution.
DISCLAIMER: That is an emergent and evolving extremely technical area. In the event you select to implement the suggestions on this put up and proceed to take part, it’s best to ensure you perceive the way it impacts you. It’s 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 proposals usually are not a sale of any type and don’t create any warranties of any type together with however not restricted to any regarding the Ethereum community or the Ethereum shoppers referred to herein.
