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The announcement of the hardfork of Ethereum in the crypto community has made many cryptopreneurs invested into it because with the new fork all eth holders may be given some of the newly minted tokens based on a specified ratio and also if the exchange being traded on gives it supports of it. This news has brought about intense buying of ETH and this would go a long way to increase its market cap to overthrow Ripple. What are your thoughts about this hardfork of Ethereum guys.

I read and received information that Hardfork ethereum was delayed, and will occur on February 22, 2019. Have you got the latest news? Thank you in advance,

I can't see big difference because of that. No price rise, volume almost the same ether. average $2,500,000,000 USD daily
I got bit different information:

The tweet stated that the hard fork, which is set to be released on block 7, 280,000, will go live on February 27, 2019.
Info source: https://blockonomi.com/ethereum-constantinople-rollout/

I did hear February 22, 2019 before. But it turned out that they will not do this at least until it at block 7280000. I got the news from here ;
it was delayed because it has the potential for people to make reentrancy attacks.
here is the official news about the hardfork ;

The price will not change because the hardfork is not done yet, while we are waiting for it. The price went back to its price before it started, and we might see another attempt in the future before the hardfork takes place.

Except some pump before the hardfork, because it is to reduce the block reward by 33% and that is very significant, but what the price will do after the hard fork is what I can't rely say because there are still alot of questions that still remain unanswered about Ethereum scaling issues

Its normal for the price to go up before the hardfork but when it is done, that’s the time investors are doubting or looking for a more and better improvements. The price of ETH dump after the delay on the hardfork, though its good so we can buy more but its hard to say now if the price of ETH will pump again when hardfork is done.

if that will close with the hardfork date and the price of ethereum will jump again, remember it has planned asic resistance and we will get the best thing to protect ethereum from the ASIC miners. This just like the extended sale to get discount.

hardfork ethereum is an upgrade, not hardfork like in previous coins, people are easily triggered at first because of its Title, and most likely this is just a temporary hype, it won't last too long. Volume pada beberapa exchange juga menurun.

It's 17 days to go but I don't see any changes in Ethereum price it is still dropping, my opinion is people will be in a hurry to buy more in the last two days before the fork because they could get Ethereum price at a much cheaper rate because it is sliding further.

This HD was delayed until the end of February, but I remember that at the time this thread was created, there were strong movements in prices and people were with several possibilities on hand! This intention will return in a few days again, if it is successful and accepted we will see new things with regard to PoS, but it is something unforeseen to predict, in addition, the HD will happen next to an expectation of Bull Run, until there the Better to do is be prepared.

What is the latest news on it? Is it postponed to the end of February or it will again be postponed? Without a bullrun, nothing good will be seen after the PoS implementation, in my opinion. Because it will not a lot of value to ETH but it's true that PoS is better than PoW.

I believe it will have an effect as we got closer to the hardfork, I will buy more eth of course but not this time I am checking the price watch of Ethereum and it seems it is sliding down, before I buy Eth it will be 5% lower than the price today so might as well buy later.

And after the fork again decline in price and capitalization and the loss of second place. Not so far all is well with the ether as before, something needs to be changed and not to produce forks.

PoS is worse that PoW and is probably the worst algorithm among all the algorithms out there that cryptocurrencies use.
as for the rise, i don't think we can expect a bull run (or more correctly a big pump) because of it because last time they announced it and people were hyped up the price didn't really go up that much. we only saw a very small pump which failed soon as the whales started dumping it and getting out.

So it was, until the update was once again postponed and capitalization went down again!

Ethereum "Constantinople Hardfork" is not focus on chain split the "ETHEREUM Developers" remains solid so the hardfork is not resulted into a new coin. But its just only a improvement in many things on Ethereum Blockchain. I believe that its not affecting the entirety of the Ethereum MarketCap size . It doesnt matter if XRP will overtake Ethereum on by MarketCap size what the important is Ethereum still the King of smartcontracts and the most used platform for ICO's and other purposes providing smart solution for "Blockchain Startup". thats the whole idea!

Many people do not understand what hardfork is, so they can not predict what will happen after the implementation. With such bad situation on the market, hardfork effects will be seen only after people in practice see what has changed for Ethereum. In short - let's wait for hardfork, and later we'll see its effects. If it works, ETH will easily jump over Rippe.

It's one of the big events for ethereum holders and supporters, even though the price is not going up it is still worth to buy now, people will buy two to three more days before the hardfork, who would not want a free coin from Ethereum, so expect the price to roll before the hardfork.

The initial news caused a good wave around the market, and then etherum progressed steadily as well.
But due to the disruption, it all went down again.

The recent updates on etherum says the upgrade is still in progress and will be possible.
Lets all wait patiently for it to happen.

Unfortunately this Ethereum fork was postponed and it made the price of Ethereum to plummet again, fortunately it didn't go back to the price it was previously before the news of the fork.. I am also among those who bought and help because of the fork.

I think ethereum hard fork would change a lot of things for many coins, all coins that are currently working in PoW system will see how it will fare with ethereum and many may decide to switch to PoS as well if it works out for Ethereum.

Ethereum has always been an innovative and developing coin that is never happy with how things are and always try to improve upon itself and that is why I love ethereum, it used to be just a regular coin and look at where it is now and without the miners and developers working together to improve the coin it wouldn't be possible to come this far.

Hopefully, when eth hard fork happens the price will go higher up and will have no problems with transaction time and prices so that other places will follow on its path to PoS system which everyone can be a part of without buying any equipments to mine.

Hope you are right. And we will see some positive changes. Already tired from such a market. Want some action and of course some profit.
Let's hope Vitalik and ETH team made good job, and fork will happen this time

There wasn't any influence on market cap. At the beginning people wanted to buy ethereum, because they expected a growth after hard fork. But in reality they were disappointed, because hard fork was postponed and price has dropped!

currently ether is about to hit the 100usd price mark. with such amount we might taste the 70/80 usd price mark before the hardfork. i don't think the hardfork is the reason why ether is dumping. i think investors are moving over to other platform which offers more quick transaction and security more than ether.

that is not up to the fork itself and not up to the EIPs.
the result of a fork is decided by the network. if a part of the network decides they want to "upgrade" and the other part decides they want to do another "upgrade" and another part decides to ignore all "upgrades" we will end up with 3 different coins no matter what the fork was, even soft forks can end up with a chain split if a part of the network decides the rules activated by the soft fork is not what they want.
this here is a hard fork so the chances of a split is even higher.

Yet there are good things that are happening at this time which makes the ethereum became good after hardfork. the News says that it has not done so yet a lot of satisfactory changes expected as hardfork before. It seems to have to wait for some more time so that the results of this hardfork can be seen.

New minted token? No such thing with the upcoming fork ,its just an upgrade so don't expect any chain split to take place and I believe Ethereum will perform better if the fork takes place because they have the best team so I'm sire they know what they are doing ,let's wait and see in the few weeks we will have answers