Ethereum [ETH] Rinkeby Testnet hardfork will land on January 9, 2019, says the main developer

The entire community of Ethereum was swallowed by the impending hard fork, Constantinople. The bifurcation that was supposed to go live in 2018 is finally reaching its end. The hard fork is scheduled for January 16, 2019 and will take place on block no. 7080000.

The team has been working on hard fork since 2017 and proposes key updates for the network. The main Ethereum Improvement Protocol includes the reduction of the issuing of the 2-ETH blockade mining premium and the delay of the difficulty bomb for almost 12 months.

As the fork approaches, total customers ready for upgrade are registered at 981, which is 12.7% of all clients on the network. At the time of writing, the total number of customers for Geth and Parity was 7709, of which the Geth 1.8.20 clients are 281 and the remaining ones are the Parity 2.1.10+ or ​​2.2.5+ clients.

Peter Szilagyi, a principal developer of Ethereum, said:

"#Ethereum mainnet Constantinople hardfork (16 January) is fast approaching. Be sure to use Geth 1.8.20+ or ​​Parity 2.1.10 + / 2.2.5 + to avoid unpleasant surprises! "

In addition, Peter also announced the program for Ethereum Rinkeby on his official Twitter account. According to an article by Geoff Hayes, Rinkeby is one of the three Ethereum Testnets, similar to the "production blockchain". The other two Testnet are Ropsten and Kovan. Rinkeby Testnet is a blockchain of authority testing, which was initiated by the Geth team to test the update before it is published on the main chain.

He also said:

"Rinkeby #On Wednesday, January 9th, the Ethereum test plot will land at around 1:00 pm UTC! Last call to update your nodes. Also, make sure you're running with `-rinkeby`, or & # 39; geth init` -and your node with the genesis specifications updated by https: // www.rinkeby.io/#geth "

Prior to Rinkeby Testnet, the Ropsten Testnet rigid fork was launched in October 2018. However, several problems occurred during Ropsten Testnet, resulting in a postponement of Constantinople's fixed fork on the main chain.

In a post-mortem report, a major developer of Ethereum, Lane Rettig said he had discovered a consensus bug in the Parity implementation of Ethereum. He also stated that there were concerns in terms of lack of miners on Parity, Geth or Aleth for Ropsten.