Green praised Bittrex for flagging the issue through its delisting of ethereum — and while other major exchanges and wallets have yet to respond, Green told CoinDesk that
he expects ethereum developers to release a new algorithm soon.
Green praised Bittrex for flagging the issue by preventing new ether and asset deposit address generation — and while other major exchanges and wallets have yet to respond, Green told CoinDesk that
he expects ethereum developers to release a new algorithm soon.
Griff Green of Giveth says that he noticed the same issue and is
expecting the ethereum developers to come up with a new algorithm that would save the day.
Not exact matches
Even though the Frontier release is the first milestone in the
Ethereum project and was intended for use by
developers as a beta version, it turned out to be more capable and reliable than anyone
expected, and
developers have rushed in to build solutions and improve the
Ethereum ecosystem.
Perhaps most notably given the major resource commitment, IOHK is funding seven full - time
developers to work on a Scala implementation of the
ethereum classic protocol,
expected for beta release this summer.
Because of this integration,
ethereum developers with existing smart contracts are
expected to be able to «transition their work to the Hyperledger Sawtooth platform» eventually, according to the blog post on the launch.
That's the situation the
developers behind
ethereum classic face ahead of a hard fork
expected to be enacted on its blockchain on 25th October (should network participants approve the upgrade).
Whatever the possible fix, the discussion implies that
ethereum developers shouldn't
expect their smart contracts to work without potentially dangerous consequences quite yet, which may or may not be fully apparent to those who already deployed code on the network.
«I
expect that nothing will happen,»
Ethereum Foundation
developer and designer Alex Van de Sande told CoinDesk.
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The
Ethereum developers are also trying to delay the difficulty time bomb that is
expected to kick in across the network.
But since the same study estimates around 1,875 people now work full - time in the cryptocurrency industry, many of which are
Ethereum developers, that ratio is
expected to change quite quickly.