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Why June? Isn't that just the difficulty bomb date? I haven't heard anything about the merge happening in June.
by babyshake 5y ago
Why June? Isn't that just the difficulty bomb date? I haven't heard anything about the merge happening in June.
- Yizahi 5y agoWhy not June? He didn't specify the year after all. :)
- JohnJamesRambo 5y agohttps://ethereum.org/en/eth2/merge/ https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/merge/ The difficulty bomb will effectively be the end of proof of work as far as I know. I apologize if that is wrong. I used to be an Ethereum miner long ago but haven’t done it for some time.
- rcxdude 5y agoThe difficulty bomb exists to make evolving the protocol by forking it smoother, since there's no practical way to keep using the 'original chain' indefinitely (TBH I think this is one of the better ideas in etherium after seeing all the drama around bitcoin hardforks). It can be effectively put off indefinitely while still staying on PoW by just forking to a version of the protocol which the same but with a later difficulty bomb, and indeed this has already been done multiple times. The current plan as stated by the foundation is to not extend it again (at least officially: miners could start their own fork if they wanted but it would be up to the market to decide which one is worth anything), but they can postpone it again.