Not exact matches
It is still unclear as to what steps
Ethereum ecosystem is planning to take whether to block the use of upcoming ASIC through
protocol changes or not.
Ethereum is planning on implementing a proof - of - stake consensus
protocol change during the Serenity phase of their development roadmap.
«Homestead is the second major version release of the
Ethereum platform, which includes several
protocol changes and a networking
change that gives us the ability to do further network upgrades..»
Ethereum has been very careful in introducing substantial
changes to its
protocol.
The correction followed the widely anticipated release of the
Ethereum's new software Homestead which brought some significant
changes to the network, including the hard fork
protocol EIP - 2.
Coleman believes that «from a technological perspective, there is nothing short of a hard fork [a non-backward-compatible
change to the
Ethereum protocol] to restore the destroyed funds.»
It is fairly easy to implement in a
protocol like
Ethereum, because it is specifically designed for contracts, but Bitcoin's scripting functionality does not allow for the existence of contracts that have internal state, so doing this inside of Bitcoin would require a very substantial
change to the Bitcoin 1.0
protocol.
This latest
change in the
ethereum protocol empowered developers to delete accounts that had been left all over the network by an unidentified hacker.
For Hirai, such a proposal goes against the philosophical principles of
ethereum and, in a blog post, strongly made his point that he «is not going to move a finger for a
protocol change affecting particular accounts».
This may
change eventually as
Ethereum aims to rollout a PoS
protocol called Casper.
Stepping back, the
change can be seen as a response to long - controversial code in the
ethereum protocol called the difficulty bomb.
In addition to this, EOS has a few other technical advantages over
Ethereum such as delegated proof of stake and other
protocol changes.
When
Ethereum starts using Casper (a proof - of - stake
protocol) this rate will likely
change.