Ethereum developers agreed on Friday how to delay a “difficulty bomb” that, if left unattended, would start to slow down the Ethereum network this summer.
The difficulty bomb is an old piece of code that makes mining on Ethereum slower—and less profitable—over time by exponentially increasing the lag between the production of each block.
The bomb was planted in 2015 to incentivise devs to implement Ethereum 2.0.
Given that the amount on hashrate on the network can influence the bomb, James said we should re-run the script in a few months to make sure we’re still on track. I will do date in ~2 months
— Tim Beiko | timbeiko.eth (@TimBeiko) May 14, 2021
Ethereum 2.0 switches the network from proof-of-work (PoW), a way of validating transactions with powerful mining computers, to proof-of-stake (PoS), which rewards those who pledge coins to the network.
It takes an average of thirteen seconds to mine a block on Ethereum right now. Without delaying the bomb, it would take more
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