I think it is right time for Ethereum community, real ETH's community members to call the Constantinople is
un upgrade, not a hard-fork.
It's better if the ETH community stopped mis-calling it as a hard-fork, that potentially lead to wrong understanding about pseudo-forks of scam projects.
More details here:
BREAKING: Ethereum's major Constantinople upgrade was delayed after blockchain audit firm ChainSecurity discovered a security issue with one of the changes.https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-constantinople-upgrade-faces-delay-due-to-security-vulnerabilitySmart contract audit firm ChainSecurity flagged Tuesday that Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1283, if implemented, could provide attackers a loophole in the code to steal user funds. Speaking on a call, ethereum developers, as well as developers of clients and other projects running the network, agreed to delay the hard fork – at least temporarily – while they assessed the issue.
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A new fork date will be decided during another ethereum dev call on Friday.
Constantinople Upgrade!
I also explained about the term 'upgrade' in another topic, and the term should be used officially in ETH community.
You should call it as an upgrade, not hard fork.
There is no debate that Ethereum should hard fork or not in the Ethereum core team of developers.
So, it's totally consensus upgrade from ETH team.
Moreover, there is no serious debate and un-consensus that usually lead to 'real' hard-fork.
For the coming upgrade of Ethereum network, the old chain will be abandoned by Ethereum team after the upgrade.
Then, everyone who have interest can use those open-sourced code of the old chain to keep developing more things from it.
It's very simple and easy to understand.
If there are 100 teams of developers use the old-chain open-sourced codes, and use them to create their own coins.
Will you call all those 100 new coins as hard-forked coins from Ethereum network?
Honestly, I strongly believe that you won't call them as hard-forked coins.
Can you confirm that you agree with me at this point, please.
In a nutshell, this coming one will be an upgrade on Ethereum network.
That's all!