Gauging Community Expectations as Ethereum’s Constantinople Launch Date Approaches

The next attempt to implement the Ethereum (ETH) hard fork is expected to come in the interval from Jan. 14 to Jan. 18 — or according to Afri Schoedon, the release manager for the Parity Ethereum client, Jan. 16. At that point, the 7,080,000 blocks will be extracted, and the Constantinople upgrade will be activated. all-core-devs call: Constantinople upgrade for Ethereum mainnet activation suggested for 16th of January 2019, block number to be confirmed on black Friday in a fortnight — Afri 🌩️ Jan 16 (@5chdn) November 9, 2018, To be on the safe side, the Ethereum Foundation also added an emergency switch that will delay the activation of Constantinople in case something goes wrong. Initially, the hard fork was planned for November 2018 but was postponed after Ethereum clients failed to reach a consensus during the launch, as reported by Cointelegraph on Oct. 15. While Ethereum developers are going…

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