Ethereum network’s upgrade, possible delay in ethereum’s difficulty bomb

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Ethereum developers implementing code for Constantinople, the network’s next system-wide upgrade.

Coindesck is reporting that, The second part of a series of ethereum network upgrades to make the ethereum more efficient, less costly and faster in terms of fees, Constantinople (Constantinople is the second part of a two-part series of upgrades, following in the footsteps of Byzantium, which was activated last October) will be activated sometime before October’s Devcon4 ethereum conference, according to stakeholders during a core developer meeting Friday.

Under that roadmap presented, the implementation stage continues until August 13, after which there will be two months of testing, including the launch of a Constantinople-specific test network.

Two other notable changes are still up for discussion includs a possible delay in ethereum’s difficulty bomb and an EIP that could improve how gas pricing works. At least as far as the mining difficulty question is concerned – a contentious topic that involves a consideration of ethereum’s issuance model and one that has different impacts on various stakeholders – no decision has yet to be made.

“We’re not going to be able to decide this part today,” Hudson Jameson, moderator of the discussion, concluded.

Tags: Technology, cryptocurencies, ether, Ethereum, Ethereum developers ,Constantinople, network’s next system-wide upgrade, ethereum’s difficulty bomb, Byzantium

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