ការអាប់ដេត 'Grey Glacier' បន្តផ្ទាល់នៅលើបណ្តាញ Ethereum

It’s another day, another upgrade for Ethereum as the world’s largest កិច្ចសន្យាឆ្លាត platform has just rolled out a new major update.

Called “Gray Glacier,” the upgrade occurred at block 15,050,000 on June 30 with the sole goal of introducing changes to the parameters of the network’s difficulty bomb, pushing it back by 700,000 blocks, or roughly 100 days.

The Gray Glacier upgrade is the network’s សមណាស់, which means it is creating new rules to improve the system and requires the node operators and miners to download the latest version of their Ethereum clients.

“If you are using an Ethereum client that is not updated to the latest version, […] your client will sync to the pre-fork blockchain once the upgrade occurs,” the Ethereum Foundation said in a ប្រកាសកំណត់ហេតុបណ្ដាញ កាលពីដើមខែនេះ។

In other words, the non-upgraded clients are stuck on an incompatible chain following the old rules, meaning that operators won’t be able to send transactions or operate on the post-upgrade Ethereum network.

What’s more, not all node operators and miners followed the recommendation though, as data from អ៊ីសឺរណិត shows that only 65% of clients were fully prepared for the Gray Glacier upgrade.

Erigon, the network’s second-largest client, was the only one to have all of its 164 clients upgraded.

Geth, the network’s most popular client, was only 67% ready, with as many as 448 clients running the outdated software. Nethermind and Besu had 76% and 78% of its clients updated, respectively.

What is Ethereum’s difficulty bomb?

The difficulty bomb, which has been a part of Ethereum since day one, is a piece of code responsible for exponentially increasing the difficulty of mining Ethereum (ETH), the network’s native cryptocurrency, and thus disincentivizing miners to continue their operations as the network transitions from its current ភស្តុតាងនៃការងារ (PoW) algorithm to ភស្តុតាងនៃភាគហ៊ុន គំរូឯកភាព (PoS) ។

In other words, detonating the difficulty bomb would mean that the actual transition—otherwise known as ការបញ្ចូលគ្នានេះ—could be just around the corner.

An implementation of The Merge has already gone រស់នៅ on Ethereum’s Ropsten testnet at the beginning of June, with Vitalik Buterin and other developers និយាយពីមុន that ”if everything goes to plan,” the transition could happen as early as August this year.

Pushing back the difficulty bomb for another 100 days, however, makes it unlikely that the schedule will be met, with the updated EIP-5133 proposal now pointing to mid-September as a new time frame for the implementation of the mechanism.

Previously, the difficulty bomb mechanism has been pushed back in five different network upgrades: Byzantium, Constantinople, ផ្ទាំងទឹកកក Muir, ទីក្រុងឡុងដ៍, and the most recent ផ្ទាំងទឹកកកព្រួញ upgrade in December 2021.

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