Update Your ETC Nodes: Ethereum Classic Will Fork on Block 8,772,000 Which Is Approximately on September 13th, 2019

Ethereum Classic upgrade, code named ATLANTIS, will occur on block 8,772,000.

Edit: This block is now expected to occur at 11:54:14 am UTC, on Thursday, September 12, 2019.

Be Prepared.

Ethereum Classic core developer Talha Cross has posted issue #130, which provides instructions for miners, node operators, wallet operators and exchanges to upgrade their nodes to be ready for ETC’s hard fork.

Key Details

You have to run at least one of the following client versions

• Classic-Geth, version 6.0.8-stable or later: etclabscore/go-ethereum/releases
• Multi-Geth, version 1.9.2-stable or later: multi-geth/multi-geth/releases
• Parity Ethereum, version 2.5.6-stable or later: paritytech/parity-ethereum/releases

Mantis is no longer supporting Ethereum Classic!

Projected hard fork date based on 14.5 seconds block time

9:00 am UTC | Friday, September 13, 2019

11:54:14 am UTC | Thursday, September 12, 2019

Technical Details

For technical details please visit ECIP-1054: http://ecips.ethereumclassic.org/ECIPs/ecip-1054


If you are a miner, mining pool, node operator, wallet operator or other kind of ETC stakeholder, please upgrade your node/s to minimize the risk of network splits.


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