Ethereum Developers Decide to Delay the Difficulty Bomb, Why Its Bad for The Merge Upgrade? - BitcoinEthereumNews.com
EthereumNagpasya ang Mga Nag-develop ng Ethereum na Iantala ang Difficulty Bomb, Bakit Masama Para sa Pag-upgrade ng Merge?06 / 11 / 2022Balita ng Ethereum ng Bitcoin Earlier this week, the Ethereum developers ipinatupad the much-awaited Merge upgrade on the Ropsten testnet. But on a Friday call, the developers decided to delay the difficulty-bomb raising doubts within the Ethereum community. First-thing-first, the difficulty bomb is a special code that increases the computing difficulty of mining ETH on the Ethereum blockchain network. The difficulty bomb has been designed to eventually boot miners off the Ethereum blockchain as the network prepares for a transition to Proof-of-Stake (PoS). But delaying the difficulty bomb would give more time to miners to stay on the Ethereum blockchain. It means that that would further delay the implementation of ‘The Merge’ upgrade on Ethereum mainet. While many called the Ropsten Merge event to be a success, the Ethereum developers have been dealing with fixing bugs that they discovered. Theres yet no fixed date for the implementation of The Merge on the Ethereum mainet. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that if no major issues are encountered, it could happen as soon as August 2022. The decision to delay the difficulty bomb has raised concerns