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Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum

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Re: Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum

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Post by robinhoodexe »

axiosgunnar wrote: post #2

Can somebody explain the significance? Is this related to the conflict between devs and miners where devs want to reduce the mining fees and miners responded by creating a fork?

No.

It’s “just” a client issue, and OpenEthereum is “only” used by ~11% of the nodes. I believe the former name is Parity, which had a major bug related to frozen coins some years ago.

See https://mobile.twitter.com/etherscan/status/1382662485832994...

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Post by COGlory »

axiosgunnar wrote: post #2

Can somebody explain the significance? Is this related to the conflict between devs and miners where devs want to reduce the mining fees and miners responded by creating a fork?

No, that was not in this fork, that one is slated for July. This fork was not contentious.

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Post by yulaow »

axiosgunnar wrote: post #2

Can somebody explain the significance? Is this related to the conflict between devs and miners where devs want to reduce the mining fees and miners responded by creating a fork?

Reading the comments seems more like a technical problem on the consensus protocol of some implementation of eth nodes (in particular openethereum and geth)

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Post by erwan »

axiosgunnar wrote: post #2

Can somebody explain the significance? Is this related to the conflict between devs and miners where devs want to reduce the mining fees and miners responded by creating a fork?

Ethereum has different client software, they must all use the same consensus rules: produce/gossip/accept transactions and blocks that follow a certain format and respect certain invariants. When that specification is updated, a hard-fork occurs. It's not a problem if all clients meet the new spec perfectly but sometimes bug happens and different clients disagree on what constitutes the canon chain. This is what happened here: the OpenEthereum client (11% of the network) has had a bug following the Berlin hard-fork (network upgrade). Nodes runnning this client are stalling at a certain block because they don't recognize the new "post-Berlin" blocks as legitimate because of a bug in the implementation.

Re: Ethereum Fork Fails on OpenEthereum

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Post by seibelj »

My former employer (major exchange) switched from Parity / Openethereum after the last major issue. The Parity devs gave it up when they switched to focusing on Polkadot and the community is not super committed to it. Geth is the safer choice.
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