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Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: what will happen for ethereum when byzantium goes live on oct 17th?
by
Rastadon
on 07/10/2017, 23:16:36 UTC
What do you guys think will happen in the coming days to ethereum, given the metropolis upgrade? Yes, I'm wondering about what will happen to the PRICE, and also if a chain split will happen, and if Constantinople might happen shortly after Byzantium, or if it will happen in 2018...

Here's a summary of metropolis:
Metropolis is the third of four planned upgrades for ethereum upgrade, and is being done in two parts:
Byzantium - started on Sept 18th, 2017 on test networks (block 1.7m) and go live on Oct 9th
Update: delayed to Oct 17th
Constantinople - tentatively some time in 2018

upgrades introduced in Byzantium:
 - foundations for zero-knowledge proofs
 - abstractions
 - simplified programming in solidity
 - mining difficulty time bomb


I don't about the chain split will have happened again, have you seen about the discussion of the ethereum dao hardfork? vitalik said that ethereum already done a lot of the fork but only the dao that generate the new currency such as ethereum classic.