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Ethereum will be rolling a series of upgrades with the "London" hard fork on August 4, 2021. It'll be an exciting time for ETH holders as the cryptocurrency becomes scarcer than ever while fees decline considerably across the Blockchain. While the hard fork will bring many benefits, it will also delay the difficulty bomb to Dec 1st. We're going to have to wait again until ETH becomes a full-fledged cryptocurrency.

This sucks real bad, since developers keep delaying ETH 2.0 after each upgrade. I know they want to make sure the new upgrade is as secure as possible before rolling it on "mainnet". But the many delays are making people desperate as the current implementation of the ETH blockchain becomes heavily congested. If this keeps up, Binance Chain or another competitor could take down ETH's position as the leader of the smart contracts industry.

What are your thoughts? Do you like the idea of delaying the difficulty bomb after each hard fork? Do you think sometimes enough is enough? Will people get tired of ETH's inability to scale on time? Your input will be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much. :)

The inability of "scaling in time" will imo be easily forgotten once ETH scales. I think scaling is an issue that's present within many of the top blockchains if not all of them (I'm talking about decentralized ones), so why would ETH's failure to scale in time be such a big issue? As soon as it's gonna be considered a good investment again, people will pour money into it.

About these delays, for sure they have a reason/s for it.
As we all know, scalability is one of the disadvantages of Ethereum right now, but once this will be solve by Ethereum 2.0, look how our life will become easier, Ethereum for sure will be more useful, and probably other Layer 1 Ethereum alternative protocols could be affected by it.
But I believe that our wait will be worth it.

They should give a firm promise when they will make sure the upgrade to ETH 2.0. People have been waiting of it all year long and until now, they're delaying it and making some updates surprisingly. Although those updates were also for the good of the network.
But it is what it is and what they've said about 2.0 must be followed and done as promised. If they don't give any timeframe before, we don't have to expect anything from them by that time but it has been said already by them.

I think you should take it easy on Ethereum. You're being too hard on it. Buterin just wants to make sure everything is tip top this time around. Besides Binance currently has its own problems now

I think there is no reason to be impatient. The upgrade has to be in perfect shape. That's the primary consideration. Schedules are secondary. You don't implement the upgrade prematurely or else it would cause more harm than good. Better not to upgrade than upgrade prematurely. So I don't see any reason for Ethereum to weaken simply because there's another postponement happening. That is to be lauded in fact. Prevention is always better than cure. I appreciate the Ethereum devs for taking very careful steps on this.

looks like the ethereum developers are doing it very carefully. of course, they don't want to rush to launch it perfectly. all very well processed. I'm sure those who support ETH by holding it in their wallets will surely reap the rewards of their long patience.
I think it's okay for the delay, although the current position of smart contract adoption is indeed mostly dominated by BSC who take advantage of this situation. everyone will still know how ETH is a real lion.

It is okay to have delays as long as they can commit with their deliverables. Maybe, next time, before eth team will give certain timeline of their next event, just provide allowances from their end so even if there are internal delays, it will not be far from their target schedule. But the nice thing about eth team is they do deliver and more. So I think the price of eth will continue to increase. Interesting what will happen this Aug 4 with their price level.

yes this is very disappointing and makes me angry. ethereum developers like making promises that are never kept. many people including myself have been looking forward to POS since last year. but it's always having delays. indeed ETH 2.0 should be launched soon, or slowly ethereum will lose its position. competitors are getting better every day. and ethereum is still struggling with scaling issues.

They have a reason for the delay, and that is to perfect the system before the launch, they know very well that their competitors are taking this opportunity to launch their own chain or bridge their chain we are all going to benefit if they launch their system in the right time, any way we have a good alternative in Binance Smart Chain.
It's going to be a good competition and will enhance users' experience once they launch so we have to be patient and wait.

Ethereum is big platform and if you look beyond cryptocurrency, big corporations like Google have challenges to any internal reconstruction for strategies, staffs, ... Sundar Pichai is very carefully and slowly to make important decisions of appointments for Google.

Vitalik and Ethereum team have to been as most carefully as possible for the upgrade because any fault will be terrible. They don't want another DAO hack. Ethereum nowadays are the second giant in cryptocurrency industry and they don't want to lose it just because an upgrade.

Isn't Ethereum planning to move to PoS? Why the "difficulty bomb" then? Where is the concept of difficulty when the network is PoS? Some explanation would be appreciated.

What is funny though is that people still don't understand that "scaling" cannot be solved by promises. There are a lot of networks out there promising scaling and which simply run into too many problems related to consensus and coordination as soon as the network actually is put to test, for example, Cardano. The same is true for Eth's scaling.

Despite the delays, I don't think Ethereum has anything to fear from the alternatives being touted. They all eventually have the same problems when people actually start using those chains. Ethereum has enough momentum to keep going.

With the launch of a series of improvements, the development of ETH is increasingly perfect by itself, although the development takes time.
if the reason for development is as a security alternative, then I totally agree with that, considering that there are so many inability to manage to make the coin itself increasingly not enjoyed by connoisseurs.
I think ETH's inability to scale on time is a reference to change that, as an alternative, other ways must be considered so that people don't get bored, this increase is very important to make ETH more in front and trusted by people, while techniques and patterns need to be we will discuss further in my opinion

PoS will work as pledge to network reward system so yes the mining concept will be long gone.

Actually the "difficulty bomb" is still in talks because of the same decision as they await the PoW to PoS switching. They are still expecting that ETH 1.0 will be moved to the ETH 2.0 which will be entirely based on PoS, calling it the process of "the merge". This is the main reason they are pushing the "difficulty bomb" implementation to the next spring in the hope that PoS will be fully implemented. If the later happens then they don't need to rely on the "difficulty bomb" at all!

The exact statement by one of the ETH developers Tim Beiko was this:


So it's more or less back up if they are unsuccessful with the ETH 2.0 implementation.

https://i.ibb.co/NNTpPQM/photo-2021-07-09-16-06-43.jpg (https://ibb.co/6tXbxVk)
https://ethereum.org/en/
The complexity bomb is no longer a relevant topic, because about 6 months remain until the POS algorithm
Binance Chain is not a competitor because it is a centralized blockchain with 21 validators
https://bscscan.com/validators#
Ethereum has over 11,000 validators
https://beaconcha.in/validators

These minor upgrades are not going to bring any major changes in the blockchain so its better to roll Ethereum 2.0 as soon as possible or else ethereum blockchain will lose its community meanwhile BSC is making huge steps forwards but never forget that its a centralized chain so its not an actually cryptocurrency to invest.

The decision to postpone the bomb of complexity until December 2021 was made back in May. The developers of Ethereum believe that at the time of the merger of the network to Ethereum-1.0 and Ethereum-2.0, the issue with the complexity bomb will be completely removed, since mining will die.

I don't think there's going to be anything panicky about ETH.  Do you want their success and promises to be perfect and cover up any remaining flaws?  Over 6 million ETH staked in ETH 2.0 (Over 180k users there).  I believe ETH 2.0 will respond very well and the price will explode.
 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/six-million-ethereum-now-being-125829747.html (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/six-million-ethereum-now-being-125829747.html)

There is nothing you can do about it, the upgrade will take a long time because any misstep and they are going to wipe out a huge market and hence they need to be careful with the upgrade as it is not that easy to migrate without proper testing. Binance and other chains had a good run because of the congestion in ETH and it will continue to help other projects.

I think delaying things to insure that everything works well is better than being prompt but glitchy or buggy.  I don't mid waiting for another months as long as the update is perfectly done. 

People may get tired on waiting but the one who wants it done right won't.

Sir, you are a very capable and in-depth analyzer. I'm quite confident the top two places are for ETH since it has a lot of users and solid fundamentals, and it's still the safest, even though BTC corrections happen all the time. BNB is currently in third place for its rating since it has been following the ETH trend in recent weeks; I believe JP Morgan is also strong with Ethereum: morgan, https://decrypt.co/75108/ethereum-mengintai-crypto-jp.

What makes you so confident about the success of PoS? ETH 2.0 is not going to be the first PoS coin. A lot of them have tried this system of using validating nodes instead of miners for processing of transactions and generation of blocks.

How is ETH 2.0 different from say ADA etc. which claim that they are better than Ethereum?

On top of that, it is already going through the MEV issues which are leading to instability. What I mean is that what makes you so certain about Ethereum's success and how is its PoS model different from those hundred others which have failed to work at scale.

I think it is better if they don't give a time frame when eth 2.0 will be fully ready to avoid making people waiting for it disappointed, while it is very important for the devs to insure everything is working in accordance before launching it, it will safe many the disappointment whenever the expected date passed without the launch, things like this can't be rushed, reason why the delays will occur, people have to understand this.

Cardano has been there for a very long time. They've delayed some of their developments to with the coin but still there are some supporters of the coin.

Same goes with Ethereum. Delaying some developments have reasons too but still the support with the coin is still the same. I don't like the idea of delaying such developments with the coin especially if its very beneficial to the community but when you released it on the date and it turns out to be a fail then it might cause the project and the coin to go down. Delaying for the betterment of the project would be better than to releasing it and it becomes a failure.

I don't think that people will get tired of ETH's inability to scale. After all like I said, there are many projects that are under the Ethereum blockchain so there will be users and supporters who will just live on how fast transaction speed of ETH is.

Upgrade and increase scalability are good but they are not decisive for the price of Ethereum, so do Bitcoin.

Soon people who are complaining and selling at this correction, accumulation time will buy Ethereum when it breaks $5,000 or $10,000. They will repeat what the crowd did with Bitcoin in 2017. No one thought Bitcoin would rise to almost $20,000 in 2017.

Ethereum, this year might get a price at 5 digits, $10,000.

Ethereum will eventually have that delay catch up, they delayed it so many times now and eventually one day it will have that difficulty increase and that is just fine, I do not even think that they should keep delaying it and if we had it back in the day it would have hurt it at the time in short term but in the long term by now there wouldn't have been a problem.

In any case thanks to this London fork I am sure that the gas fee will get a lot cheaper and thanks to that we are going to see the difficulty not be a huge problem when the bomb actually goes off. What are we scared of? The difficulty going up and why? Because it will increase the gas fee a lot and it will congest a ton, well with the new gas fee thing I am sure that it will not become a problem and people will be able to pay at least 5-10 bucks for a month or two after the bomb and then it will be fully empty and be free finally.

for something big why not publish? the time is fixed and indeed sometimes there are delays, I think that's normal. they need a long time to develop a project as big as ethereum.
everyone has been waiting a long time for this great development to be completed. the time is still long and everyone is still patient.

Those are pretty wild predictions. The last rally for Ethereum was based on the final specs for launch of ETH 2.0. I think people rushed for the 32 ETH requirement and that created this current price floor. Apart from that, there wasn't anything fundamentally new about Ethereum.

So expecting almost a 5X solely because of launching PoS is too optimistic. PoS has a different set of issues and hasn't really been done on this scale except in a fully centralized manner (as in case of Binance Chain).

What the hell is this bomb everyone keeps talking about? I am not well versed with Ethereum and the community. So all of this is a bit new.

In crypto, it is possible.

People did not believe that Ethereum can get its 2018 all time high, they said the altcoin will never touch that expensive price again.

Then what happened? Ethereum broke the cap $1,400 and soared to more than $4,100. They had many reasons to disbelieve in Ethereum because they saw Changpeng Zao shilled Binance Smart Chain and they can use BNB and that chain with very cheap transaction fee.

Ethereum will be like Bitcoin, beat all fud and opponents to get its new all time high. BNB can get a price of ETH in 2018 soon but it will need a few years to rise to $4,000 like ETH months ago.

As they always say, "better safe than sorry". The ETH developer team is being extremely careful by making sure everything is in tip top shape before launching the new version to the public. Transitioning from PoW to PoS while retaining decentralization/security/reliability is NOT an easy task. Many people will be desperate as fees soar towards new heights. There's no reason to worry about Ethereum getting "clogged" since there are other alternatives on the market with greater transaction capacity and cost-efficiency. If people want convenience/ease-of-use, then Binance Chain or Cardano would be the way to go.

Sooner or later ETH 2.0 will come into fruition, making the Ethereum platform bigger, faster, and stronger than ever. As long as decentralization is put first, nothing else matters. Just my opinion :)

Vitalik has to be most carefully as possible for the upgrade because any fault will  wipe out a huge market,.The upgrade will take a long time.We should be more patiently.Binance Smart Chain also is perfect and it developes rapidly，Maybe one day BNB will take place of Eth ,but not now.

you should be calmer. don't worry about the ethereum development that is currently underway. although in the delay I think it was explained from the start that planning for this latest development will take a long time.
I believe that when it's all done it will pay dearly for what many people have doubted.

The community will still have to wait a little longer.
The team has solved all the problems and is ready to start ETH 2.0 Merge
https://ethmerge.com/
Next, there will be a procedure for launching new shards, which will take another couple of years.
Merge will only reduce inflation on the Ethereum network and stop mining

It sucks having to wait a long time just to obtain the benefits of other blockchain networks (which are low fees and fast transaction confirmation times). At least, we can be sure that the upgrade will be as stable as possible after launch. I guess security/reliability is more important than rushing things out and putting the whole Blockchain at risk. Most people want convenience on top of everything else, so they'd get desperate when developers delay the upgrade. The longer it takes for ETH 2.0 to be rolled on mainnet, the higher BNB and other competitors will go.

Fortunately, there are scaling solutions available to make our lives easier on ETH. The "MATIC" network is up and running, with several projects making use of it for low fees and blazing-fast speeds. Aave and Instadapp are using Polygon (MATIC) to counteract the high fees and slow transaction throughput of the main ETH blockchain. With this, we may no longer need to wait for ETH 2.0 to enjoy the benefits of other blockchain networks. What matters is decentralization above all else. If ETH remains decentralized, nothing else matters. Just my thoughts ;D