On the Cusp of Constantinople: Ethereum's Fork
16 January 2019 - 5:51AM
ADVFN Crypto NewsWire
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January 15, 2019 -- ADVFN Crypto NewsWire -- If you are on the
email list for Blockgeeks, then you got the email yesterday that
Ethereum’s next fork will begin in less than 48 hours. If not,
then, you may have seen the same proclamation plastered all over a
wide variety of internet news sources. Even Express wrote a feature
on the subject.
With this in mind, what you may not
know is how best to keep up with the progress of Constantinople.
Today, CoinDesk published an article that offers some valuable
insights on the subject. First and foremost, it is important to
remember why Constantinople matters and to do that, we, as a
community, need to take our information straight from the
source.
In other words, there is no better
way to remind ourselves of the significance of any improvement to a
blockchain network than going to its’ developers. In this case,
this means going to the Ethereum blog’s chief post on
Constantinople. Because of this, one could also conclude that all
secondary sources should be avoided due to their inherent
distortion of the original announcement, though this is not quite
the case.
Developers can also be biased.
Developers can pan an improvement as if it will be the be-all
end-all for the network’s future success and they often do so
because they have to. Considering this, the only way to avoid
falling victim to such bias is to learn how to read between the
lines or use the critical thinking skills that we all have from our
days in school.
Take even what developers say with
a grain of salt and try to verify the claims with hard data to
eliminate as much of the bias as possible. Look at sites that
measure the technical performance of the network during the fork
like the one linked here.
In the end, any chance of finding
out the truth in any industry, especially one as new as the
blockchain industry, requires going back to the tried and true
crypto mantra of doing your own research.
Follow Constantinople with this in
mind as well as the knowledge of what network measurements matter
the most to the fork’s success and you will be ahead of
most.
By: BGN Editorial Staff
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