Topic: Ethereum hardfork - what you need to know! (Read 427 times)

Constantinople hard fork (upgrade/update only) is rescheduled!

Read here: https://www.ccn.com/ethereum-hard-fork-rescheduled-heres-when-constantinople-will-finally-launch/

ETCV and ETN forks are both scam! I hope no one from this forum got victimized.

Here are 3 media reports about the scam:
https://www.ccn.com/warning-crypto-scammers-are-taking-advantage-of-ethereum-hard-fork-concerns/
https://ethereumworldnews.com/ethereum-nowa-etn-ethereum-classic-vision-etcv-hard-forks-scams/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/two-alleged-ethereum-scam-forks-appropriating-users-private-keys-report-finds

Locking this thread now.

I have anticipated that there will be many fraudsters who want to take my private key

You can also read https://cryptoslate.com/ethereums-hard-fork-constantinople-what-you-need-to-know-before-january-16th/

Hardfork, really?
Personally, I don't call this fork is a hard fork because there are no serious issues with Ethereum network as the time of DAO hack happened years ago, and the network don't have to fork to solve errors from its technical issues.
This time, the fork is for system upgrading purposes, not to solve issues from losses in the network, and so on.
I think that over more than the last one year, after the fork of Bitcoin Cash from Bitcoin, the crypto world have fallen into over-using the 'hard-fork' term.
It's not good at all because it might mislead crypto enthusiasts to wrong directions, that are far away from original purposes of the upgrade.

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Instead, I would prefer to use the term 'important upgrade' or 'milestone upgrade' to Constantinople for the event.
People created terms for use, then spread them around.
Sometimes, terms used in misleading direction. That's what I meant.

https://dapplife.com/ethereum-classic-vision-nowa-hard-forks/

"But both projects’ websites raise a lot of red flags. Classic Vision’s road map mostly consists of vague promises that the project will do things better and more quickly than Ethereum, while the whitepaper runs to a measly 15 pages with little in the way of references. But these materials at least exhibit the grammatical mastery of English you would expect of a serious project, which is more than can be said for Ethereum Nowa. And whoever is really behind Nowa hasn’t even gone to the trouble of putting together an pamphlet-length whitepaper.

Overall, Ethereum Classic Vision seems more like a Bitcoin Gold than a Bitcoin Cash: a largely inconsequential attempt to spin a fresh cryptocurrency off a more established name, rather than a contentious splintering of the Ethereum community. Timing the launch around the much-anticipated Ethereum Constantinople update seems to be a conscious attempt to generate as much publicity for Ethereum Classic Vision as possible. Even the name of the project feels unimaginative, combining the Ethereum Classic of ETH’s much-more momentous 2015 hard fork with the headline-grabbing Bitcoin Cash Satoshi Vision spin-off.

By attaching its airdrop of free tokens via an Ethereum hard fork to a crowd sale, Ethereum Nowa is potentially more nefarious. Think very carefully before doing anything but offloading the tokens you automatically receive following the hard fork."

The hardfork is named the "Ethereum Constantinople Hard Fork"
It will happen in approximately 10 days at block #7,080,000 , we built a countdown timer on our site which you can follow while browsing around https://www.coingecko.com/en 

The changes to the network are of the following:-
EIP 145: Bitwise shifting instructions in EVM. Reduce gas usage, cheaper gas fees
EIP 1014: Skinny CREATE2.
EIP 1052: EXTCODEHASH Opcode. This will optimize large scale code execution on the blockchain.
EIP 1283: Net gas metering for SSTORE without dirty maps (replaces 1087). Cheaper gas fees.
EIP 1234: Constantinople Difficulty Bomb Delay and Block Reward Adjustment. This is going to cause mining reward to drop.

Also, because its a hard fork, new coins may be spun out of this. Some known possible hard forks are Classic Vision and Nowa.

Most major exchanges already express support for the ETH Constantinople hardfork.

Exchanges are supporting the Constantinople fork which is just an upgrade of Ethereum, they're not supporting the other forks which are just giving airdrops to you. If you want those, best thing would be to have your ETH on MEW but I don't think it's worth it, these coins will probably have zero value.

I think that my post is providing the correct information
ETCV Has nothing do to with ethereum fork

I am not analyzing if the fork is consensual or not, just separating the two forks from each other

Your post is somehow misleading.

Constantinople fork is a consensual hardfork, scheduled.

Ethereum classic vision is also a hardfork, but non consensual.
From etcv Ann :


Also, from their offical website

Thanks for sharing this info guys. Hope more people see it and not fall in any scam or loose their coins and tokens.

So Constantinople fork will be a separate coins that works like ethereum but different wallet and blockchain?

Something relevant to this thread

WATCH OUT
one of the January ethereum forks that will also have an ICO,  Ethereum Nowa is SCAM

For more details read here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ethereum-nowa-scam-fake-team-5079183

Guys please tell me what the exchange in addition to Binance will support a fork of ETCV which will be on 11 Jan?

Thanks for these clarification, I was very confused about the eth hard forking. So ETCV has nothing to do with ethereum fork.

Its not just an upgrade ,its the future of ethereum which I'm praying that it will make ethereum better  than what it was before, the 2.0 and implementation of POS ,I'm just hoping it will be better than before that's the only it will make sense

Almost all posts in this thread are talking about ETCV
ETCV Has nothing do to with ethereum fork

In particular,
Classic Vision Hard Fork – 11 Jan 2019: All Ethereum holders will receive 3 ETCV for each ETH in their wallets.

Constantinople Fork – 16 Jan 2019 (or earlier) Constantinople Mainnet hard fork scheduled for block #7080000: The Constantinople Mainnet hard fork is arguably the most significant fork because it is a big component of Ethereum’s transition from using a proof of work protocol to proof of stake

More details
https://cryptopotato.com/hot-january-for-ethereum-the-three-hard-forks-you-should-know-about/

Etherum hard fork right day is january 16 tight Your eth
And keep safely

Usually most forks aren't worth anything. They manage to have some value in the first weeks (because of some marketing) and they just go to zero after a few months. Even bcash is in that direction...

Judging from the GitHub repo, I don't see anything new from ETCV. They just forked the code from ETH repo, and then that's that. At this moment, I believe ETCV will not worth anything. So many fake and scammy hardfork lately.

Has anyone information about how the Fork went on the Testnet? last I heard it failed back in November, heard nothing about it since.

Here is some more info I managed to gather.

https://ethereumcv.io/


There is already a scam accusation against Ethereum Nowa here so be careful with your keys and tokens guys:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ethereum-nowa-scam-fake-team-5079183


Source regarding the forks:
https://coinloop.io/cryptocurrency-calendar

You can read more about ethereum classic vision here

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ann-etcv-ethereum-classic-vision-fork-31-of-ethereum-5089443

They say that ethereum classic project was abandoned by the main developer team, and they are making a new etc... basically