The Ethereum community will likely 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 occasions and timezones.
Please improve your node earlier than Wednesday, December 30, 2019 to account for the variable block occasions
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 resembling 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 (resembling Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an online pockets service (resembling Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cell pockets service (resembling Coinbase Pockets, Standing.im, or Belief Pockets), or a {hardware} pockets (resembling 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 newest model of your Ethereum shopper:
NOTE: Concord (ethereumJ) is now a deprecated shopper and won’t be supporting Istanbul. Besu is a mainnet suitable Ethereum shopper written in Java.
The place can I study 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. Yow will discover that weblog put up right here.
Thank You!
A giant due to the Ethereum neighborhood and to all Ethereum builders throughout all purchasers and platforms who got here collectively to offer enter, ideas, and contribution.
DISCLAIMER: That is an emergent and evolving extremely technical area. If you happen to select to implement the suggestions on this put up and proceed to take part, you must 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 surprising bugs. By selecting to implement these suggestions, you alone assume the dangers of the results. This put up and suggestions should not a sale of any form and don’t create any warranties of any form together with however not restricted to any referring to the Ethereum community or the Ethereum purchasers referred to herein.
