Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on January 15, 2019, 03:15:42 PM

However, Ethereum has a built in "difficulty bomb",

"difficulty bomb" is more like a scarecrow specially because of its name. in fact they messed it up when they pushed it back a couple of times since this hard fork was supposed to happen a very long time ago. which proves it is not really a big deal. not to mention that Ethereum Classic (the original immutable chain) got rid of it about 9 months ago which means if anybody wanted they could simply pull the already tested change from ETC into ETH and continue mining in.

Quote from: lobcmt2 on January 15, 2019, 03:52:19 PM

You should call it as an upgrade, not hard fork.
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they are not two different things. an upgrade is a hard fork, calling it something else doesn't change its nature.