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 vary as a result of 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 possibly can 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 title given to this community improve. Earlier community upgrades have been given different names reminiscent of Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.
As an Ethereum consumer or ether holder is there something I have to do?
If you happen to use an change (reminiscent of Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an online pockets service (reminiscent of Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cellular pockets service (reminiscent of Coinbase Pockets, Standing.im, or Belief Pockets), or a {hardware} pockets (reminiscent of Ledger, Trezor, or KeepKey) you don’t want to do something except you might be knowledgeable to take extra steps by your change or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I have to do?
Obtain the most recent 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 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 adjustments are going into the improve. You’ll find that weblog publish here.
Thank You!
An enormous due to 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 house. If you happen to select to implement the suggestions on this publish and proceed to take part, it’s best to be sure 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 implications. This publish and suggestions aren’t a sale of any variety and don’t create any warranties of any variety together with however not restricted to any regarding the Ethereum community or the Ethereum shoppers referred to herein.
