Geth

Ethereum 2.0

Ethereum Devs Grapple With Worst-Case Scenarios

Christine KimJul 28, 2021

Is Ethereum ready for the “London” hard fork?

Ethereum

Developers Debate Disclosure Protocols After ‘Accidental’ Ethereum Hard Fork

William FoxleyNov 13, 2020

Ethereum’s largest client Geth hard-forked after a bug was tripped Wednesday. Developers are now weighing the merits of security disclosures methods.

Ethereum

Ethereum’s Most Popular Software Client Issues Hotfix to High Severity Bug

Christine KimAug 24, 2021

The release was posted to GitHub at 07:08 UTC Tuesday. Details of the fixes weren't immediately disclosed.

Ethereum

Ethereum’s ‘Unannounced Hard Fork’ Was Trying to Prevent the Very Disruption It Caused

Colin HarperNov 11, 2020

A hard fork that split Ethereum’s chain in two was activated on purpose, calling into question Ethereum’s client coordination.

Ethereum

Buggy Code Release Knocks 13% of Ethereum Nodes Offline

William FoxleyAug 27, 2020

Over 1,000 Ethereum nodes will have to resync or find a new client provider after a critical bug in OpenEthereum’s codebase was revealed.

Geth

Ethereum

Ethereum Developers Delay Berlin Hard Fork to Stem Client Centralization Concerns

William Foxley

79% of Ethereum nodes run on Geth. Core developers have pushed back July's Berlin hard fork so other clients can catch up.

Security

Unpatched Ethereum Clients Pose 51% Attack Risk, Says Report

Daniel Palmer

Ethereum clients that still haven't patched known vulnerabilities pose a security risk to the entire network, according to new research.

Technology News

Ethereum Clients Release New Software In Wake of Hard Fork Delay

Nikhilesh DeChristine Kim

Major ethereum clients are releasing new versions of their software to prevent the now-delayed Constantinople hard fork from triggering.

Ethereum

Ethereum’s Geth Software Upgrades Ahead of January Hard Fork

Nikhilesh De

Geth has locked ethereum's upcoming Constantinople hard fork into its latest code release.

Features

This New Ethereum Software Client Is Built With Enterprises in Mind

Ian Allison

Unlike other enterprise versions of ethereum, ConsenSys' new Pantheon has a less-restrictive software license and uses Java as a programming language.

Ethereum

‘Turbo Geth’ Seeks to Scale Ethereum – And It’s Already in Beta

Rachel-Rose O'Leary

Instead of tackling ethereum's transaction costs, developer Alexey Akhunov focused on the blockchain's state, and the software is ready.

Proof-of-Stake

Testing for Ethereum’s Coming Consensus Change Is Moving Ahead

Rachel-Rose O'Leary

Less than a year since Casper was formalized, ethereum clients are starting to test a smart contract for the network's big consensus change.