Follow Ethereum Hard Fork live
July 20, 2016 | mark
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Today an unprecedented event takes place in the history of public block Chains: the Ethereum network a Hard Fork As it looks subjected, which means a change in the Ethereum history. Background for Hard Fork is the DAO The debacle of approximately 3.6 million ETH were transferred to a DAO Child.
In order to afflict a Hard Fork of them have faced some hurdles. Among others have had to argue for or against a Hard Fork the Miner. Moreover, it is the users who advised favor a Hard Fork urgently download the new client, which you can download here. With "Yes" you vote for a Hard Fork. The Fork is when everything runs smoothly this afternoon expected. The Hard Fork is planned for the block 1,920,000.
For those who do not want to wait for any Breaking News / may, we have compiled a small list of news sources.
More details about the background to The DAO or Ethereum found here or here.
Hard Fork countdown
As already mentioned several times the Ethereum Hard Fork to be implemented, "reset" the stolen Ether inventories that have been diverted in the wake of The DAO Smart Contract project by an unknown assailant.
When all is done exactly can not say only estimate because the Hard Fork is set for the block 1,920,000 and you do not know when this block is exactly one gemined. Currently, the mining rate varies greatly and is at 14.3 seconds.
In order to track the timing of Ethereum Hard Fork accurate, some hardworking members of the community have agreed to create various counters.
One of them is the Slack Nation Counter, which is already widespread in social media. Even the Ethereum block Explorer Etherscan has its own counter. Another third and Counter provides Tick Counter, which, however, is lagging behind the other two counters for a full hour.
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Which pools have already spoken out in favor or against a hard-Fork, you can follow on Reddit in the overview of "econoar". Currently we are, according to the index at 77.6% Yes and 22.4% No. The list is to be updated every hour.
blogs
The activities on various blogs will probably rise sharply today.
Here are mainly two blogs mentioned, which will provide their community before and after the Fork with important information.
Since the DAO attack on June 17, supplied Slock.it, the company behind the source of The DAO, its users regularly with the latest information. Slock.it also published information about the upcoming Hard Fork and its users probably will not even be in the dark today.
Not to mention at this point is of course the Ethereum Foundation blog.
Ethereum co-founder and chief developer of the Go-Ethereum project, Jeff Wilcke, is the author of the Ethereum Foundation. He tweets at regular intervals the latest updates to the current event.
Also Lefteris Karapetsas of slock.it we saw lately on The DAO Hard Fork actively tweeting.
Who wants to fishing out all tweets about the current topic, we recommend the currently popular hashtags: #TheDAO #Ethereum and #HardFork.
The countdown is on and also we are the unique Ethereum Hard Fork event closely monitor and report.
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