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 alter because of 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’ll be able to monitor the community improve in actual time at http://forkmon.ethdevops.io/ (will probably be up to date shortly earlier than the fork).
What’s Muir Glacier?
Muir Glacier is the identify given to this community improve. Earlier community upgrades have been given different names similar to Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.
As an Ethereum person or ether holder is there something I have to do?
In case you use an alternate (similar to Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an internet pockets service (similar to Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cell pockets service (similar to Coinbase Pockets, Standing.im, or Belief Pockets), or a {hardware} pockets (similar to Ledger, Trezor, or KeepKey) you don’t want to do something until you might be 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 shopper:
NOTE: Concord (ethereumJ) is now a deprecated shopper and won’t be supporting Istanbul. Besu is a mainnet appropriate Ethereum shopper 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 modifications are going into the improve. You’ll find that weblog put up here.
Thank You!
An enormous because of the Ethereum group 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. In case you select to implement the suggestions on this put up and proceed to take part, you must ensure you perceive the way it impacts you. You need to 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 aren’t 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 purchasers referred to herein.