The group behind EthereumPoW (ETHW), a Proof-of-Work (PoW) fork of the Ethereum Blockchain, has announced plans to launch its hardfork shortly after the Ethereum Merge on September 15. Despite a difficult few weeks since its introduction, though. After the Merge, ETHW mainnet will occur, according to a tweet from @EthereumPow. “The exact time will be announced 1 hour before launch with a countdown timer, and everything including final code, binaries, config files, nodes info, RPC, explorer, etc. will be made public when the time’s up.” ETHW Core Announced the Plan for Mainnet#ethereum #ethw #ethereummerge #ethereumfork $ethw $eth #ethpow 1/n pic.twitter.com/cnYOW6l1iU — EthereumPoW (ETHW) Official #ETHW #ETHPoW (@EthereumPoW) September 12, 2022 Launch of ETHW According to the @EthereumPoW account, the mainnet will begin with 2,048 empty blocks after the Merge block, adding padding to ensure that the chainID – a distinctive identifier to distinguish among blockchains – switches effectively and that the chain is the longest chain of ETHW. Some engineers are perplexed by the choice to postpone the code release and wait until the very last minute to update the chainID. Roberto Bayardo, a Distinguished Software Engineer at Coinbase, submitted a GitHub pull request a few days ago on behalf of Coinbase to clarify the availability and activation of the EthereumPoW fork code. The pull request notes that a new chainID had not yet gotten...
