Developers Ethereum created Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 2387 , for which a hard fork is planned for January 6 in order to delay the so-called "complexity bomb" for another 4 million blocks or more 600 days.
According to CoinDesk planned for block number 9,069,000 to be scheduled for operation will connect the Ethereum Prohere-of-Work (PoW) Algorithm Chain with the Beacon Chain, the first phase of the upcoming Ethereum 2.0which will work with the Proof-of-Work Stake Matching Algorithm (PoS).
According to developer reports last week, developers have raised concerns about other projects trying to capitalize on the ETH ecosystem and have shown that they want to keep ETH 2.0 up and running. Thus, they reached a rough consensus on the approval of EIP 2387.
A hard fork, according to Ethereum developer James Hancock, will push the "difficulty bomb" as much as "reasonable" is to give developers time to look at the bomb itself and decide if it needs changes to make it more predictable. is he wrote :
This fork will give us time to reach out to the community to better understand its priorities regarding intentions, and will provide time for suggestions on the best mechanisms to achieve these goals.
Some argue that the bomb should be completely removed as it has now been delayed several times. Others, however, argue that this forces Ethereum customers to constantly update their software so as not to increase costs.
The Ethereum Difficulty Bomb is designed to gradually increase the hashing difficulty on the cryptocurrency blockchain to force the network to move towards PoS. It is also often referred to as the Ethereum Ice Age.
If the developers approve EIP 2387, this will be the third time since 2015 that the difficulty bomb has been expanded. Last year in Byzantium, the hard fork was extended by 3 million blocks, and earlier this year in Constantinople, the hard fork was extended by another 2 million blocks.