{"id":7256,"date":"2021-08-06T06:01:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2021-08-06T06:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T05:01:27","slug":"vitalik-buterin-applauds-the-success-of-the-london-hard-fork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/vitalik-buterin-applauds-the-success-of-the-london-hard-fork\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitalik Buterin applauds the success of the London hard fork"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Vitalik Buterin,\u00a0co-founder of Ethereum\u00a0stated that the success of the London hard fork<\/a>\u00a0has given him more confidence in the upcoming merge to the Ethereum\u00a02.0 chain.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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The EIP-1559 district, according to Buterin, is \u201cdefinitely the most important part of London.\u201d according to Bloomberg News from Singapore. As a result of the upgrade, which was completed approximately 15 hours ago, the fee generation mechanism has been tweaked, resulting in a portion of the fees being burned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The upgrade had already resulted in the burning of more than 3,500 ETH worth approximately $9.8 million at the time of writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Buterin who stated that the successful deployment of the London upgrade is \u201cproof that the Ethereum ecosystem is able to make significant changes.\u201d He went on to say that the upgrade:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDefinitely makes me more confident about the merge,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ethereum's current mainnet <\/a>will “merge” with the proof-of-stake Beacon Chain, marking the end of the Ethereum proof-of-work era, according to the official documentation. Despite the fact that Eth 2.0 researchers are working on ways to accelerate the timetable, the rollout of shard chains is expected to take place before the end of 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon merging, the new mainnet will be able to run smart contracts on the Proof of Stake (PoS) network, effectively eliminating the need for power-hungry mining operations and potentially reducing the network's energy consumption by 95%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond fee burning, the London upgrade also heralded the introduction of variable block sizes, which means that when the network is under heavy load, users will be less likely to be forced to wait as long for transactions to be processed in fixed blocks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of this, the blocks can now dynamically expand or contract in response to the number of transactions that are received. The user experience, according to Buterin, will be vastly improved:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow it gets much easier to send a transaction that will get included in the next block and that\u2019s very important to user experience,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A Forbes article on the upgrade stated that ETH could even outperform Bitcoin <\/a>in terms of market sentiment, which is encouraging for the cryptocurrency market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cryptocurrency exchange CoinGecko reported that Ethereum <\/a>had gained 3 percent in the previous 24 hours and was trading at slightly less than $2800. Etherum (ETH) has gained an impressive 37 percent in the last two weeks and has gained an incredible 280 percent so far this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vitalik Buterin,\u00a0co-founder of Ethereum\u00a0stated that the success of the London hard fork\u00a0has given him more confidence in the upcoming merge to the Ethereum\u00a02.0 chain. The EIP-1559 district, according to Buterin, is \u201cdefinitely the most important part of London.\u201d according to Bloomberg News from Singapore. As a result of the upgrade, which was completed approximately 15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,21],"tags":[128,1925,1999],"class_list":["post-7256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethereum-news","category-news","tag-ethereum","tag-london-hard-fork","tag-vitalik"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/image-48.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}