{"id":45628,"date":"2021-07-06T20:15:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=45628"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T09:11:05","slug":"developer-proposes-block-number-to-activate-the-london-hard-fork-on-ethereum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/developer-proposes-block-number-to-activate-the-london-hard-fork-on-ethereum\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer proposes block number to activate the London hard fork on Ethereum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum developer Tim Beiko has initiated a proposal to activate the London hard fork on the mainnet of the second-largest cryptocurrency at block #12,965,000, expected on August 4.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ethereum core devs have proposed block 12,965,000 for London upgrade on Mainnet. It is expected around August 4th.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EgHKhrabBz\">https:\/\/t.co\/EgHKhrabBz<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5ec2o7OKiD\">https:\/\/t.co\/5ec2o7OKiD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 banteg (@bantg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bantg\/status\/1412443802577653762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>EthHub co-founder Anthony Sassano <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sassal0x\/status\/1412425906799484944\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sassal0x\/status\/1412425906799484944\">noted<\/a> that the final decision regarding the block number would be made during the next call on Friday, July 9.<\/p>\n<p>Key element of the upcoming upgrade will be the EIP-1559 proposal, which entails burning part of transaction fees. On July 1 it went live on the Goerli testnet. On July 7 its activation on the Rinkeby testnet is expected.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The London network upgrade (EIP-1559) is now live on the Goerli testnet \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n<p>Watch ETH being burned here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fQCH5kDMNJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/fQCH5kDMNJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anthony Sassano (\ud83e\udd87, \ud83d\udd0a) (@sassal0x) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sassal0x\/status\/1410438224242036742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The EIP-1559 proposed by Vitalik Buterin in 2018 envisions more &#8220;fair&#8221; fees for miners for including a transaction in a block. A portion of them will be burned algorithmically, depending on network load.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ethereum\/pm#agenda\">the hard fork specifications<\/a>, besides EIP-1559 the upgrade includes five other proposals.<\/p>\n<p>In May, developers identified <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-developers-uncover-vulnerability-in-eip-1559\">a vulnerability in the EIP-1559 proposal<\/a>,<strong> <\/strong>which could have led to network congestion.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-miners-split-into-two-camps-over-eip-1559\">divided miners into two camps<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Opponents of the proposal, including jointly <a href=\"https:\/\/etherchain.org\/miner\">controlling<\/a> 44.8% of the network&#8217;s hash rate, pools SparkPool and Ethermine, wanted to concentrate in the latter <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ethereum-miners-to-stage-protest-against-eip-1559\">more than 51% of computing power<\/a>. However their attempt failed.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum developer Tim Beiko has initiated a proposal to activate the London hard fork on the mainnet of the second-largest cryptocurrency at block #12,965,000, expected on August 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,268],"class_list":["post-45628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ethereum","tag-hardfork"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45630,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628\/revisions\/45630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}