Ethereum Hard fork (constantinople) on 16th january 2019

[5thFear]

The hardfork for bitcoin didn't go so well so i am not very optimistic about ethereum hardfork either. Also i think it is coming at a very wrong time as the prices of the whole crypto industry is down and already the market is in a free fall so i don't know if this event can bring any good chance in these hard times of the crypto world.

[bigcash2011]

The expected outcome is definitely extremely bullish due to this upgrade but due to the current terrible market situation we cannot say what will exactly happen, i am hopeful we will see some trend reversal and recovery for eth.

[yurez]

After hard fork waiting for a small increase, twenty to thirty percent.  Perhaps this will be the beginning of the next bull rally.

[RobotNIK]

Honestly, I very much hope that this plug will bring a positive result to this coin and Ethereum will stop falling so much and make a rebound!

[Bittalk12]

It is not impossible for ethereum to be pumped on January or before that hardfork since that smells and instant cash and a free income to fill bags. It may also become a reason for ethereum to take over the second spot again so we have to collect as many as ethereum as we can before that happens. One thing is for sure, it will not become the same as BCH hardfork that caused a market manipulation. This is not the first time for ethereum to be on a hardfork.

[Enzo05]

Well Vitalik is very smart and he wont do the fork if it will not be good for ethereum maybe one of the reason why he will make it because he just want ethereum to have a partner and seeing having a partner will make a big success .

[batang_bitcoin]

I'd say to think of nothing though when there are forks about to come, price do reacts and its increasing.

But this time, ETH devs are just following it's roadmap and this is just another upgrade that they shall make. There will be no coin to get as an additional or freebie by holding ETH on your wallets. I'll expect nothing will happen to the prices but I want some buff.

[khufuking]

The hardfork for bitcoin didn't go so well so i am not very optimistic about ethereum hardfork either. Also i think it is coming at a very wrong time as the prices of the whole crypto industry is down and already the market is in a free fall so i don't know if this event can bring any good chance in these hard times of the crypto world.

Ethereum hardfork is not like Bitcoin hardfork, the Ethereum hardfork will not result into any split of Ethereum, you can call it an upgrade in the core that the only way to do it will be by hardfork. Nothing bad can or will come for Ethereum hardfork we can only wait for positive effects, this hardfork is long waited for and 100% of Ethereum supporter are waiting for it.

[ethereumhunter]

eth devs has planned a hardfork on 16th jan to halve the block reward of eth to controll the inflation.. what do you think how it is gonna effect the eth price plus sholud we hold some eth for the fork

I hope that it will give effects to the ethereum price so the price can increase back to the higher price. Although maybe it's not too high, at least we can sell the ethereum we have that we bought right now and made a profit. Usually, when the coins having a hard fork, the price will increase because there is a new coin from the fork and people can get a free coin too. But I don't know what will happen before or after the ethereum hard fork, and I will wait for this.

[ndico]

I think it's a good move for the network sustainability and i would have appreciate if they can even go lower like reducing it to 1/3 of the current reward so that the price will rise up more.

[Piskeante]

it will make absolutely no difference.

This market is doomed. Will die soon.

[LukkasG]

I afraid that we will see something similar to BCH - after the fork ETH will drop in price and the total price of both coins will be lower than the price of ETH before the fork.

[Accts4u2]

All of the hardforks that are being made are becoming a major problem which is one of the reasons why the prices of the coins are dropping to fast right now. We really do not need more coins, what we need right now is more volume and more concentration of money into a coin like bitcoin which determines the entire market and not more coins

[boolog]

eth devs has planned a hardfork on 16th jan to halve the block reward of eth to controll the inflation.. what do you think how it is gonna effect the eth price plus sholud we hold some eth for the fork

I hope this update revives the price of ethereum. Even if the price does not increase, but also does not fall further, i would be very satisfied. All my hopes are for this update.

[kamar25]

what is clear is that it will affect the price of ETH, I'm sure another decline will occur if all the shares have been completed. I hope everyone holder ETH even longer

[Yaunfitda]

I was not aware that there will be a ETH hard fork. But I guess the devs really need to do it to salvage was has left with ETH right now because the price has lost so much value in the last 10 months alone.

But I don't think this will be effective though, we have seen a lot of fork coins not being successful in the long run like BCH, hope though that I'm wrong.

[Saugani]

Hardfork this will bring the ecosystem better, opening early ethereum 2.0 and consensus PoS. I think price will rise-up a little but to year 2019 market crypto and another will change too will see as soon as possible.

As soon Ethereum Devs Meeting 52 Agenda at 4th January - Constantinople Progress

https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/66

it will make absolutely no difference.
This market is doomed. Will die soon.

Calm down buddy....

we believe currently the market a sudden-hit, heard of crypto will not die as soon as possible while the blockchain is still there including the internet is still live!!

[cryptonight9631]

eth devs has planned a hardfork on 16th jan to halve the block reward of eth to controll the inflation.. what do you think how it is gonna effect the eth price plus sholud we hold some eth for the fork

Less supply coming to market should mean less selling pressure and more chance for ETH price to increase but I think that all of that will be overridden by the overall market trend. ETH needs people to be using the coin, for ICOs or dapps etc. The problem with ETH is that in a bull the price will sky rocket as supply is eaten up by these projects but during a bear market there is less demand from ICOs and dapps and a lot of selling pressure from past funds becoming available.

Thats what probably affecting the price of ethereum right now. But let just take also to look at the bright side of ethereum if this fork gonna be successful. We can see some good pump and expect that we will no longer see its price go red.

[grifinmch]

It is hoped this will hardfork can change the result or the direction of the ethereum. prices continue to fall and bought a lot to wait for hardfork to arrive can be a benefit. However this also sometimes will give you a loss if hardfork give bad impact and it is not even certain whether the result is good and not.

[davinchi]

eth devs has planned a hardfork on 16th jan to halve the block reward of eth to controll the inflation.. what do you think how it is gonna effect the eth price plus sholud we hold some eth for the fork

The whole point of doing it to stop the bleeding on ethereum so I don't doubt it will have some positive affects on the price. They probably already did market research on this subject and already done their tests for it and came out with a result that says it would be beneficial for ethereum to get this fork in order to save it from this horrible market.

Either it will go higher a bit or it will stay but have a positive long term affects but no matter what the outcome will be the team probably already done some research on the subject so this is not just winging it out of their heads. We wouldn't know why or how without talking to them personally but I doubt they will come to bitcointalk and find this post to talk to us about the research they have done previously about the subject.