[ANN] Ethereum: Welcome to the Beginning

[gembira]

When is the hardfork planned? I think it would be a good time before BTC hardfork. As we could see ETH and alts grow if they would have made this in few month before BTC hardfork and than will be BTC growing... 

7 December 2019.
You can read this: https://blog.ethereum.org/2019/11/20/ethereum-istanbul-upgrade-announcement/
or this: https://cointelegraph.com/news/istanbul-to-berlin-ethereum-milestones-on-the-road-to-serenity

So does this mean that on December 7th Ethereum is going to move to POS? May be this big dump before upcoming huge pump after hardfork   
Hope to see good altseson again 

[hnbdgr]

When is the hardfork planned? I think it would be a good time before BTC hardfork. As we could see ETH and alts grow if they would have made this in few month before BTC hardfork and than will be BTC growing... 

7 December 2019.
You can read this: https://blog.ethereum.org/2019/11/20/ethereum-istanbul-upgrade-announcement/
or this: https://cointelegraph.com/news/istanbul-to-berlin-ethereum-milestones-on-the-road-to-serenity

So does this mean that on December 7th Ethereum is going to move to POS? May be this big dump before upcoming huge pump after hardfork   
Hope to see good altseson again 

No, this HF has nothing to do with the POS. There is no certain date for ETH 2.0, just rumors that it will start in Jan 2020. It is not clear whether a full POS will be introduced, or mixed POS/POW at first for better security. Full POS may happen still in Q1 2020 if there are no bugs.

[RivAngE]

When is the hardfork planned? I think it would be a good time before BTC hardfork. As we could see ETH and alts grow if they would have made this in few month before BTC hardfork and than will be BTC growing... 

7 December 2019.
You can read this: https://blog.ethereum.org/2019/11/20/ethereum-istanbul-upgrade-announcement/
or this: https://cointelegraph.com/news/istanbul-to-berlin-ethereum-milestones-on-the-road-to-serenity

So does this mean that on December 7th Ethereum is going to move to POS? May be this big dump before upcoming huge pump after hardfork   
Hope to see good altseson again 

No, this HF has nothing to do with the POS. There is no certain date for ETH 2.0, just rumors that it will start in Jan 2020. It is not clear whether a full POS will be introduced, or mixed POS/POW at first for better security. Full POS may happen still in Q1 2020 if there are no bugs.

An update of this huge caliber should be announced more than 2 months earlier, so I'm sure it won't happen on January... it's too soon and there's no official announcement.

Now that I think about it, I've been hearing about Ethereum's POS for about 2 years now!

[TeraBite]

Ethereum is again in downtrend after sitting above $180 level more than month so many people waiting for upward breakthrough but BTC crash ruin this so quickly. I hope next upcoming Istanbul hard fork could bring up more attention and help to create a FOMO and we can see a short term rally so let's see what happen next.

[RivAngE]

I'm sorry but I wouldn't expect much of a bullrun after an Ethereum update.
Unfortunately the price is dictated by a few people, which I'm sure most have not realized since they cling into the "decentralization" dream, and the price will only spike when those few people have thrown every random guy who bought the top out of the market.

[samuraijin]

Ethereum is again in downtrend after sitting above $180 level more than month so many people waiting for upward breakthrough but BTC crash ruin this so quickly. I hope next upcoming Istanbul hard fork could bring up more attention and help to create a FOMO and we can see a short term rally so let's see what happen next.

the market was bleeding when the downtrend yesterday, there was a lot of panic that pushed ETH to fall deeper than usual, touching a low price of around $ 138, right now we are only pushing $ 10 at just $ 148, so I hope the price doesn't really go below $ 100, I guess that will hurt many people who hold ETH for a long time, waiting for release or something new coming soon from ETH to get more traders or investors

[Javi_Anibarro]

No, this HF has nothing to do with the POS. There is no certain date for ETH 2.0, just rumors that it will start in Jan 2020. It is not clear whether a full POS will be introduced, or mixed POS/POW at first for better security. Full POS may happen still in Q1 2020 if there are no bugs.

An update of this huge caliber should be announced more than 2 months earlier, so I'm sure it won't happen on January... it's too soon and there's no official announcement.

Now that I think about it, I've been hearing about Ethereum's POS for about 2 years now!

We are going parallel, PoS and PoW at the same time.
There is no exact date for the launch of the Beacon chain until now. Last time it was scheduled this year but it was delayed,
But I am sure it will not later than 2020.
Just keep watching this blog to get the latest information about ETH 2.0: https://blog.ethereum.org/

[zahidmoon]

No, this HF has nothing to do with the POS. There is no certain date for ETH 2.0, just rumors that it will start in Jan 2020. It is not clear whether a full POS will be introduced, or mixed POS/POW at first for better security. Full POS may happen still in Q1 2020 if there are no bugs.

An update of this huge caliber should be announced more than 2 months earlier, so I'm sure it won't happen on January... it's too soon and there's no official announcement.

Now that I think about it, I've been hearing about Ethereum's POS for about 2 years now!

We are going parallel, PoS and PoW at the same time.
There is no exact date for the launch of the Beacon chain until now. Last time it was scheduled this year but it was delayed,
But I am sure it will not later than 2020.
Just keep watching this blog to get the latest information about ETH 2.0: https://blog.ethereum.org/

there should be excat time for the launch. already market condition is not good at this time and its going low. and according to my point of views market will go more down for now and don't know where will be the bottom eth could touch 100$ again in this year.

[BayAreaCoins]

FreeBitcoins.com now offers a no KYC Xchange (exchange) market for BTC_ETH.

https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/BTC_ETH

[hd49728]

FreeBitcoins.com now offers a no KYC Xchange (exchange) market for BTC_ETH.

https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/BTC_DGB

You put a wrong link to DGB, not ETH.

It is a good start to build up the exchange but I think it is difficult to compete with the other older exchanges that have better volume/ liquidity than yours. If you can solve the volume/liquidity issues, people will join more.

[coin_1122]

No, this HF has nothing to do with the POS. There is no certain date for ETH 2.0, just rumors that it will start in Jan 2020. It is not clear whether a full POS will be introduced, or mixed POS/POW at first for better security. Full POS may happen still in Q1 2020 if there are no bugs.

An update of this huge caliber should be announced more than 2 months earlier, so I'm sure it won't happen on January... it's too soon and there's no official announcement.

Now that I think about it, I've been hearing about Ethereum's POS for about 2 years now!

We are going parallel, PoS and PoW at the same time.
There is no exact date for the launch of the Beacon chain until now. Last time it was scheduled this year but it was delayed,
But I am sure it will not later than 2020.
Just keep watching this blog to get the latest information about ETH 2.0: https://blog.ethereum.org/

there should be excat time for the launch. already market condition is not good at this time and its going low. and according to my point of views market will go more down for now and don't know where will be the bottom eth could touch 100$ again in this year.

The market situation is not important here because ETH community is kept for ETH 2.0 from many days if they still drag this means defining the price of ETH coin will easy touch 100$ mark again with this market fluctuation. So it is very good to release specific dates when they are releasing the ETH 2.0.

[shinratensei_]

No, this HF has nothing to do with the POS. There is no certain date for ETH 2.0, just rumors that it will start in Jan 2020. It is not clear whether a full POS will be introduced, or mixed POS/POW at first for better security. Full POS may happen still in Q1 2020 if there are no bugs.

An update of this huge caliber should be announced more than 2 months earlier, so I'm sure it won't happen on January... it's too soon and there's no official announcement.

Now that I think about it, I've been hearing about Ethereum's POS for about 2 years now!

We are going parallel, PoS and PoW at the same time.
There is no exact date for the launch of the Beacon chain until now. Last time it was scheduled this year but it was delayed,
But I am sure it will not later than 2020.
Just keep watching this blog to get the latest information about ETH 2.0: https://blog.ethereum.org/

there should be excat time for the launch. already market condition is not good at this time and its going low. and according to my point of views market will go more down for now and don't know where will be the bottom eth could touch 100$ again in this year.

The market situation is not important here because ETH community is kept for ETH 2.0 from many days if they still drag this means defining the price of ETH coin will easy touch 100$ mark again with this market fluctuation. So it is very good to release specific dates when they are releasing the ETH 2.0.

It's a really important thing, as you can see there was a whale who has already started to send his ethereum to the exchange site. The price means trust from the buyers and holders. ETA has already published and the next hardfork will have done in the next month. The market is only following where bitcoin is going on. 
How deep the bottom price of ethereum will be decided by bitcoin consider bitcoin is the only coin that was affecting the whole price of the cryptocurrency.

[BayAreaCoins]

FreeBitcoins.com now offers a no KYC Xchange (exchange) market for BTC_ETH.

https://freebitcoins.com/xchange/market/BTC_DGB

You put a wrong link to DGB, not ETH.

It is a good start to build up the exchange but I think it is difficult to compete with the other older exchanges that have better volume/ liquidity than yours. If you can solve the volume/liquidity issues, people will join more.

Fuck, good catch.

Fixed.

It is a good start to build up the exchange but I think it is difficult to compete with the other older exchanges that have better volume/ liquidity than yours. If you can solve the volume/liquidity issues, people will join more.

Meh, life is hard. I think lots of places bullshit their liquidity and volume.  I'd rather just create a fair arena for trading and honest vs have a flood of people we tricked into using our shit.

If our site is good... it will naturally grow IMO.

[hd49728]

Fixed.

You are fastly responses to fix it.

Meh, life is hard. I think lots of places bullshit their liquidity and volume.  I'd rather just create a fair arena for trading and honest vs have a flood of people we tricked into using our shit.

If our site is good... it will naturally grow IMO.

Basically, you are right. If ones is good, people will use it and it will naturally gradual grow. In contrast, huge competitions from other exchanges always play as barriers for growths of new exchanges (if less or without promotions run).

[BayAreaCoins]

Fixed.

You are fastly responses to fix it.

Meh, life is hard. I think lots of places bullshit their liquidity and volume.  I'd rather just create a fair arena for trading and honest vs have a flood of people we tricked into using our shit.

If our site is good... it will naturally grow IMO.

Basically, you are right. If ones is good, people will use it and it will naturally gradual grow. In contrast, huge competitions from other exchanges always play as barriers for growths of new exchanges (if less or without promotions run).

If you send me your ETH address I'll send you a tip too btw.

[yangongear]

Ethereum is again in downtrend after sitting above $180 level more than month so many people waiting for upward breakthrough but BTC crash ruin this so quickly. I hope next upcoming Istanbul hard fork could bring up more attention and help to create a FOMO and we can see a short term rally so let's see what happen next.

Sorry but I think hard-fork trend is over. It only works in 2017, and after that I don't see any successful hard fork (on the price side). After the big dump few days ago, BTC is going in to a downtrend, and ETH too.  I think we need a new trend

[Mr. Spasybo]

I read this topic again, and just want to say thank to Vitalik Buterin. Cryptocurrency brought blockchain technology to the world is Ethereum, not Bitcoin, because it started the wave of ICO in 2017 and 2018!

[fuguebtc]

Ethereum is again in downtrend after sitting above $180 level more than month so many people waiting for upward breakthrough but BTC crash ruin this so quickly. I hope next upcoming Istanbul hard fork could bring up more attention and help to create a FOMO and we can see a short term rally so let's see what happen next.

Sorry but I think hard-fork trend is over. It only works in 2017, and after that I don't see any successful hard fork (on the price side). After the big dump few days ago, BTC is going in to a downtrend, and ETH too.  I think we need a new trend

You are right. If the hard fork is planned on 7 Dec 2019, till there are no chances of any movement in Ethereum. Rather price of eth is continuously going down. I would say coin halving, new updates, and hard forks are stories of past, the crypto market is now mature enough and is not easily affected by such changes.

[gembira]

No, this HF has nothing to do with the POS. There is no certain date for ETH 2.0, just rumors that it will start in Jan 2020. It is not clear whether a full POS will be introduced, or mixed POS/POW at first for better security. Full POS may happen still in Q1 2020 if there are no bugs.

But what is means this hardfork on 7th December 2019? Which changes twil they have have?
January may be will be even better time for POS. The close to BTC halving - the better...

[asriloni]

No, this HF has nothing to do with the POS. There is no certain date for ETH 2.0, just rumors that it will start in Jan 2020. It is not clear whether a full POS will be introduced, or mixed POS/POW at first for better security. Full POS may happen still in Q1 2020 if there are no bugs.

But what is means this hardfork on 7th December 2019? Which changes twil they have have?
January may be will be even better time for POS. The close to BTC halving - the better...

I hope that you will not be a  lazy person to read more through use the external source from the internet

EIP-152: creates the prerequisite to test the Equihash PoW within the framework of an Ethereum contract. This enables relay and Atomic Swap transactions with Zcash (ZEC).
EIP-1108: makes zk-SNARKs cheaper, so that more cost-effective scaling and data protection applications can be created.
EIP-1344: adds ChainID opcode for contracts to track the correct chain on state channels and plasma.
EIP-1884: prevents spamming attacks by changing the cost of some EVM opcodes.
EIP-2028: Makes zk-SNARKs and zk-STARKs cheaper by reducing the gas cost of accessing data within a transaction.
EIP-2200: changes the EVM cost calculation (adjustment of SSTORE gas costs taking into account SLOAD gas cost change).

Source : https://medium.com/ethereum-cat-herders/istanbul-testnets-are-coming-53973bcea7df

This is the first part of the Istanbul upgrade, the next part (2nd) will be going on next year.