The Ethereum community might 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 on account 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 positioned at https://ethernodes.org/muir_glacier. etherscan.io has supplied a countdown timer positioned at https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/9200000. You’ll be able to monitor the community improve in actual time at http://forkmon.ethdevops.io/ (it will likely 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 resembling Istanbul, Costantinople, and Spurious Dragon.
As an Ethereum consumer or ether holder is there something I must do?
When you use an trade (resembling Coinbase, Kraken, or Binance), an online pockets service (resembling Metamask, MyCrypto, or MyEtherWallet), a cellular pockets service (resembling Coinbase Pockets, Standing.im, or Belief Pockets), or a {hardware} pockets (resembling Ledger, Trezor, or KeepKey) you do not want to do something until you might be knowledgeable to take extra steps by your trade or pockets service.
As a node operator or miner, what do I must do?
Obtain the most recent model of your Ethereum consumer:
NOTE: Concord (ethereumJ) is now a deprecated consumer and won’t be supporting Istanbul. Besu is a mainnet appropriate Ethereum consumer written in Java.
The place can I study extra about this improve?
The Ethereum Cat Herders have put collectively a weblog submit which outlines why we’re upgrading the community and what modifications are going into the improve. You will discover that weblog submit here.
Thank You!
A giant due to the Ethereum group and to all Ethereum builders throughout all purchasers and platforms who got here collectively to supply enter, ideas, and contribution.
DISCLAIMER: That is an emergent and evolving extremely technical house. When you select to implement the suggestions on this submit and proceed to take part, you must be sure to perceive the way it impacts you. You need to perceive that there are dangers concerned together with however not restricted to dangers like sudden bugs. By selecting to implement these suggestions, you alone assume the dangers of the implications. This submit and proposals are usually not 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.