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 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 situated at https://ethernodes.org/muir_glacier. etherscan.io has supplied a countdown timer situated at https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/9200000. You may 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?
Should 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 don’t want to do something until you’re knowledgeable to take further steps by your alternate 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 appropriate 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 adjustments are going into the improve. You will discover that weblog put up here.
Thank You!
An enormous due to the Ethereum neighborhood and to all Ethereum builders throughout all shoppers and platforms who got here collectively to offer enter, ideas, and contribution.
DISCLAIMER: That is an emergent and evolving extremely technical area. Should you select to implement the suggestions on this put up and proceed to take part, you need to be sure you perceive the way it impacts you. You must 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 put up and suggestions are usually not a sale of any variety and don’t create any warranties of any variety together with however not restricted to any referring to the Ethereum community or the Ethereum shoppers referred to herein.
