Ethereum Is Getting Ready for the Constantinople and Petersburg Upgrade

The Constantinople hardfork was postponed to February 27 due to a security breach. While for this upcoming upgrade, developers of Ethereum believe that it will “go as planned”.

Hudson Jameson, a developer from Ethereum Foundation, who handles developer relations, told CoinDesk that one of the key lessons from Ethereum's hard forked attempt in January was "better communication with miners to let them know about the upgrade.” So that miner's operation won’t be disrupted.

ChainSecurity, an audit platform for smart contracts that discovered the vulnerability in the Constantinople upgrade at the time, believed that the Ethereum team responded quickly when the problem was found.

ChainSecurity CTO, Hubert Ritzdorf also told CoinDesk even without central command, the Ethereum community collaborated efficiently to solve the problem.

Since Constantinople had already been activated before the vulnerability was discovered, Ethereum core developers had agreed on an informal name for the coming hard fork — “Petersberg”.

At the end of February, the original Constantinople code and Petersberg will be activated on the main website simultaneously.

The release manager for the Parity Ethereum client, Afri Schoedon created a hard fork countdown timer. The estimated press time of Constantinople and Petersburg is at 17:31:25 pm on February 28, 2019.

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Author: Nicole Wei
Disclosure: I don't hold any bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

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