The core developers of Ethereum agreed this Friday, October 25, the delayed branch deposit that will trigger the update of Istambul in the main network, would occur on the 4th of December this year, as a tentative date.The decision of the programmers came during his call number 73 in which it was also stated that, if there is any drawback to the activation of Istambul, the process would be postponed again to the 8th of January.During the meeting, which was attended by among others the Hudson Jameson, Damage Ferrin, Péter Szilágyi, Piper Merriam, James Hancock, and Wei Tang, it was emphasized that the dates are modifiable. This forecast was highlighted due to events that occurred prior to the bifurcation takes Constantinople and St. Petersburg, which was activated in the main network after three attempts.“It seems that there is a general consensus that the 4 of December is the date for the hard fork and use the 8 of January as the date of backup in case something goes wrong,” he wrote on twitter Tim Beiko, another of the developers who attended the meeting.After the call, Ferrin shared through the platform Gitter that according to their calculations, the fork strong would occur in the block 9.056.000.
Improvements to the network
In August, the developers of Ethereum approved six changes for this first phase of the fork Istanbul that include a reduction of costs of transmission of data for their transactions (EIP-2028) and the inclusion of a new algorithm for the mining of ETH (ProgPoW), all framed its plans to develop the version 2.0 of the protocol. The Istanbul, turkey, will be the eighth branch deposit that runs on Ethereum.Remember that at the end of September the test network of Ethereum, Ropsten, splintered off into two strings after the update was previewed two days, which came as a surprise to the developers. A similar situation occurred with Constantinople.The test network of Istanbul delayed activation of the 4 September to 2 October due to the programmers received more than 30 Proposals for Improvement of Ethereum (EIP). Of that total, six improvements were accepted to form the first phase of the fork strong, while the rest would be part of a second phase that would be applied at some point between January and April 2020.Ethereum is the network that integrates ether, the second criptomoneda more important according to their market capitalization, behind only bitcoin. At the time of writing this article its price is 191,29 u.s. dollars, according to the section of markets Breaking News.