Ethereum fork constantinople postponed?

[rdbase]

There was a security vulnerability which could cause a ongoing amount to be mined.
So they will be delaying it until a meeting tomorrow where they can determine when it can go forward.
https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-constantinople-upgrade-faces-delay-due-to-security-

[mdayonliner]

I thought you were talking about this ETCV for a moment. It turns out that they were trying to scam the users Ethereum wallet.

[adaseb]

More details are listed here

https://blog.ethereum.org/2019/01/15/security-alert-ethereum-constantinople-postponement/

Basically its one of their EIP that has this issue and they will most likely remove it from the constantinople upgrade. It had something to do with gas prices and it looked like a minor issue but they decided to postpone it just in case since its an important update.

This delay really isn't an issue however it caused panic anyways as you can see by the way the sell-off occured. Basically happened moments after the ETH dev on twitter announced the delay. Most likely it was due to the fact that the fork was less than 2 days away. Maybe if it was a month away, it wouldn't of caused such a great stir.

[VasilyS]

It is a chance to mine a little bit more Ethers until Constantinople hard fork. This delay caused a negative impact on the price, but if this problem will be revealed after hardfork, the consequences will be much more serious.