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Altcoin has shown moderate and consistent growth over the past seven days.
ETH founder Vitalik Buterin and others have dismissed the allegation that a new smart contracting feature to be released in the impending hard fork of Constantinople will have negative security implications.
ETH adheres to its new position as the biggest altcoin based on market capitalization. Ethereum is also stable, trading at around $ 123.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/most-cryptos-see-gentle-green-amid-exceedingly-calm-market-picture

To be honest, none of us knew exactly what Etheruem was trying to do. The market has made some pricing considering that a good thing will come, but the explanations so far were always superficial.

It is not possible to understand where this fork process is going. But I still think Ethereum is far below the price it should have been. It deserves higher levels.

ETH is a good and smart altcoin, only in terms of what they are facing now is price stability where everyone wants to see ETH prices more than they are now, and apart from Constantinople for security matters, obviously they should be prioritized.

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I do not think that the upcoming constantinople wil have negative impacts because the updates are going on underground and if you noticed, gas fees are reduced and alot faster lately.

Just focus on the positives, the bull run awaits soon.

Ethereum has a very clear roadmap, many documents made by Vitalik explaining what are all ethereum forks and upgrades, and now you say that "nobody knew what was ethereum trying to do"?

Constantinople is an expected upgrades to allow POS implementation in a near future

It is hard to say that it will be with the security of Ethereum, when a hard fork of Constantinople happens, the developers are primarily interested in everything to go without consequences.

hopefully there are no more delays. if this fork is successful maybe we will see an increase in eth prices. now ethereum is starting to rise slowly, so I still have great hopes.

Etherum is still underestimated sure, i always say Etherum should not be under $500 no mater what, most for the cryptosphere is build on ERC20 lol.
Etherum  is still by far the best Dapps atmosphere/blockchain for any project out there. The fork(s) of Etherum will be no doubt out of this universe a long as Vitalik & couple genius with him still alive.

They have found the flaws and that's the reason why it's pumping now due to the upcoming Constantinople upgrade. It has resulted a positive increase for ETH and mostly everyone wants to see more of it before and after the fork.

They are securing everything before proceeding to the event.

It seemed to me they put off the fork because of just security and some vulnerabilities. So now the risk should be reduced, and the price increase.

that is pure bullshit.

in a cryptocurrency whenever there is a fork (without any exception) it will always be considered high risk. and this risk is hundreds of times higher when it is a hard fork compared to when it is a soft fork. in case of Etherum this IS  a hard fork introducing fundamental changes in the network hence it is considered a high risk fork.

additionally when you consider that this fork is going to turn thousands of mining rigs to brick because of the change to POS you can see how unhappy miners are and how they might decide to stick to previous chain and not fork to the new one.
of course ethereum is fully centralized and they will face a lot of problem because they will be going against millions of dollars of centralized power that can dump their coin the same way they tried dumping the original  chain which is not called ETC.

I see that many people are against with this new upcoming fork of eth . they see that it can bring too much negativity . oh well,  but for me i think im going to feel hapoy because this upcoming fork can only be the last solution for eth value to recover . isnt that amazing ? Instead of complaining and stressing yourself too much , why cant you guys think of the positive effects that a fork can bring to a coin .

It is doubtful that the test failed 2 times before implementation and fork is still not implemented. Most probably this time they will make what they wish. So we can see this in price increase, although price has been going up slowly, I think in this case it is better.

The Constantinople was designed to provide more advantages to ethereum and it's users,and the team definitely have had this planned out for years now,and further postponement gives them further tune to develop this and make sure everything goes according to plan
If it will affect it's security levels or have a little bit of a negative effect,i strongly doubt,but we'll have to wait and find out when it does happen

Well I'm sure after the Constantinople fork Ethereum will find better feet in crypto space ,its will stand out among its competitors, ETH teams knows what they are doing and its good they postponed the upgrade in the first place for better results

But they have already done so many audit to the code after there was a big company that give an awareness to the ethereum developers regarding it last month. This is a good news and that's why ether gets a very big increase right now.

this article is written intentionally in a way to be misinterpreted possibly because they want to help make an ETH pump happen since they know it is getting harder and harder to pump it.

what it is saying is simply about the fact that the developers claim there is no "security" issue with the changes that the fork is introducing. otherwise the fork itself is still highly risky and is introducing a lot of security issues.

I think it is best to just wait and see what happens. I am quite excited to the benefits this hardfork brings in term of development to be honest. The current is a good bonus.

I might not really know the science behind the Ethereum Constantinople hardfork but one thing I do know is that if it would have any negative implicy, Vitalik Buterin would have kicked against it and I trust his judgement.

We have seen phenomenal growth in Altcoins in the past few days especially ethereum, the price is now above $130 when I check ed it this morning, I just hope that the upward momentum continues.

I think this is just a very short growth. I do not think that Ethereum will be able to rise above $ 150. we already saw the same growth in early January

security issues and hacking threats are an important concern for the delay in eth constantinople yesterday, but I think the problem has been handled well by the ethereum team and their community, I hope this fork will run smoothly and without problems

with how ETH is struggling so hard to rise despite the green all around the market i don't think there is that much hope in the upcoming fork. instead i believe that people are mostly scared of this fork.

the only reason why they would buy it at this point is if some big whales decide to pump it or if they are convinced they can double their ETH tokens.

I think that growth is due to the fact that many are waiting for something significant from the hard forks, so they are beginning to actively invest in anticipation of growth, which they themselves create!

And before the hard fork there will be a serious fall. As it always happens before hard forks. So it was with all the forks of large coins

Most of the people thought this hard fork is bringing pos to ethereum blockchain but instead only block reward will drop to 2 (3 before). Still, i wonder how will miners got affected by this.

coins like ethereum operate and survive based on people's faith in them since they have nothing else going on to get people excited enough to make an investment in that coin.

so far people have lost their faith in ETH and its profitability since they lost nearly 90% of the money they wasted here. so in order for them to come back it first has to get pumped for at least a  month with a lot of users dumping and preventing the rise then it can hope for some of them coming back.

this fork is more like the first step in trying to fool them into coming back which is why it is being advertised this much while they try to hide the dangers of it in a very dishonest way.

The Constantinople update will have a positive effect on the Ethereum project and on the price of the ETH coin. If the upgrade process encounters security problems, the team will solve them. I do not think that there are critical problems with which the team can not cope, so do not strongly focus on this.

I also feel that this was the right decision to postpone the update in order to correct all the errors. In fact, in other large projects, problems just happen and just as they require a quick reaction from the team. The Ethereum team is not fast but is developing the project, so I think that there will be no security problems.

i believe the new update and upgrade of the ethereum blockchain which is tagged constantinople is not having any issues, whether it be security or any other since they are already aware of the recent developmental trends in the space. it gives a better approach to blockchain related transactions

Ethereum definitely seems bullish from here and the upgrade will definitely add the spice creating even more hype and fomo so im definitely in for massive eth price growth in coming weeks and months.

Didn't feared Constantinople at all, we are well behind 27th and all of march is smooth curves. How about tackling one's own security? I am looking for a library (preferable PHP) for creating deposit addresses from mnemonics.
Any suggestions?

try searching on Github.com for that kind of libraries, you will find a lot of them, i have not used any in PHP so i would not suggest anything that may end up being bad.
but if you search for BIP39 and 41 you will find many. check their license first and then use them accordingly.