Ethereum [ETH] The fixed fork of Constantinople Mainnet is programmed for the 7080000 block, says the main developer

The most anticipated fork of the cryptocurrency community, Ethereum [ETH]Constantinople is finally scheduled for next year. The hard fork will occur at the 7080000 block around January 16, 2019.

The announcement was made by the main developers of the platform on their social media platform, including Peter Szilagi and Afri Schoedon. Szilagi said:

"Main fork #Ethereum Constantinople, scheduled for block No. 7080000, estimated around January 16, 2019!"

The announcement of the hard fork was initially realized in July 2017, during a developer and a meeting with the stakeholders, with the goal of making the network more efficient and less expensive.

The hard fork proposes the implementation of five Ethereum improvement protocols [EIP]S. One of the well known implementations is the reduction of the emission of the block mining premium, from 3 ETH to 2 ETH and the delay of the difficulty bomb for 12 months.

The upgrade will also improve network efficiency and performance. In addition, the hard fork will also ensure that the network is faster and will focus on optimizing the experience of developers and reducing the overall cost to developers.

Furthermore, it was decided that the hard fork will first take Ropsten Testnet, after which it will be launched on the main chain after Devcon 4. However, the Testnet has had its obstacles, with the delay and the meeting with several problems. during the Ropsten testnet.

According to Peter, the reason for the delay in the test network was a Denial of Service [DoS] attack that was detected on the Ethereum virtual machine [EVM]. While during the Testnet, the consensus bug was discovered in Parity. Lane Rettig, another lead developer, said that confusion over the meaning of terms such as the transaction and the execution frame may have contributed to the bug.

There were also problems related to miners and the mechanism of Parity and Geth. In the post-mortem report, Rettig had stated that there was a problem with the availability of miners on Parity, Geth or Aleth for Ropsten Testnet.

He also added that Parity had a limit on how the nodes could reorganize automatically, since the fork was too long for the Parity Ethereum nodes, which was not the same as Geth's.