{"id":47838,"date":"2022-06-12T23:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ethereum-core-devs-delay-crucial-difficulty-bomb-for-two-months\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T23:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T23:04:01","slug":"ethereum-core-devs-delay-crucial-difficulty-bomb-for-two-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ethereum-core-devs-delay-crucial-difficulty-bomb-for-two-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum Core Devs Delay Crucial ‘Difficulty Bomb’ for Two Months"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ethereum core developers met on Friday and decided to delay the handling of the “difficulty bomb”, a crucial catalyst in Ethereum’s long-anticipated “<\/span>Merge<\/span>\u201dWhich will migrate the network from a proof-of-work consensus to <\/span>proof-of-stake<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n The difficulty bomb was planted in Ethereum’s code in 2015 as a measure to force validators to accept the merge. An implementation of the merge dubbed <\/span>went live on the Ropsten testnet<\/span> earlier this past week.<\/span><\/p>\n Following the testnet merge and after discussing a number of bugs revealed by the test merge, developers proposal <\/span>EIP-5133<\/span> to delay the difficulty bomb to August 2022. It has been delayed five times before.<\/span><\/p>\n “<\/span>In short, we agreed to the bomb delay,<\/span>” <\/span>tweeted<\/span><\/a> lead developer Tim Beiko after the call on Friday. “<\/span>We are aiming for a ~ 2 month delay and for the upgrade to go live in late June. ” <\/span><\/p>\n In short, we agreed to the bomb delay. We were already over time, and want to be sure that we sanity check all the numbers before selecting an exact delay and deployment time, but we are aiming for a ~ 2 month delay, and for the upgrade to go live late June.<\/p>\n – Tim Beiko | timbeiko.eth \ud83d\udc3c (@TimBeiko) June 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n While Ethereum developers have not firmly committed to a date for the Ethereum merge, both Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and core developer Preston Van Loon have said August\u2014 “<\/span>if everything goes to plan<\/span>\u201dVan Loon said last month at a conference.<\/span><\/p>\n\n