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 because of 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 offered Istanbul node statistics and a countdown timer situated at https://ethernodes.org/muir_glacier. etherscan.io has offered 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/ (will probably 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 similar to Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.
As an Ethereum consumer or ether holder is there something I must do?
For those who use an alternate (similar to Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an online 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 extra steps by your alternate or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I must 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 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. You could find that weblog put up here.
Thank You!
An enormous because of the Ethereum neighborhood and to all Ethereum builders throughout all shoppers and platforms who got here collectively to supply enter, ideas, and contribution.
DISCLAIMER: That is an emergent and evolving extremely technical house. For those who select to implement the suggestions on this put up and proceed to take part, it’s best to be sure to perceive the way it impacts you. It is best 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 proposals will not be a sale of any variety and don’t create any warranties of any variety together with however not restricted to any regarding the Ethereum community or the Ethereum shoppers referred to herein.
