HardFork 0.20.0 Might Be Closer Than We Think - And No, It's Not The One Enabling SMT (Yet)

in witness-category •  7 years ago 

As I already wrote a few times, one of my favorite pastimes is to peruse the Steem GitHub repository. Not only to stay informed, as a witness, about the state of the blockchain, but also to spot any potentially disruptive changes before they actually occur.

While doing my regular check this morning I observed something interesting.

In my last post about the SMT status, I pointed out there are two possible hardforks in the projects pipeline: 0.20.0 and 0.21.0. All the SMT code was in the 0.21.0 branch and I was left thinking what's the role of the 0.20.0 milestone.

And today I saw that an inconsistency between the protocol and p2p code was observed and, given the fact that it is a bit pressing, it will be addressed in this 0.20.0 hardfork.


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There is no set date for it, but I'd bet on a rather soonish release.

This is not a UI problem so most likely regular users will not even notice.

For witnesses, though, this might be a mandatory upgrade.


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and why exactly by this you think the hadrfork will occur? sorry i am a noob in that kind of stuff haha. Thanks alot for giving us hope ;)

it's a change which affects block production and it must be done quickly.

Always feeding us with valuable information
@dragosroua you my true witness ... Keep steeming ..
But with the next hardfork...will posts get better earnings...😎

will this increase the steem value?

Hahaha @mirzacho 😂 I also asked same question...we need steemit value especially posts worth more like when I joined in June! 😎

@dragosroua,
What can be happened with this hardfork? Is it like what we experiencing in BTC?

Cheers~

Nope, not even remotely. Users will not even notice it. It's more for witness nodes, it won't affect consensus or other parts of the blockchain.

@dragosroua,
How about it affects on STEEM price? Thanks for the kind response friend!

Cheers~

Don't see why it would affect the STEEM Price, as @dragosroua mentioned, its mainly an update for witnesses and block production.

@sqamemal,
"block production"?

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Well in a nutshell, the steem each block can store upto 375 MiB of transactions(transfers, post, comments etc) but somewhere else in the code the maximum size for a p2p message (not too sure what this means) is defined as 2 MiB. MiB is similar to MB(megabytes)
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/1655

@sqamemal,
Thank you very much for sharing this useful information friend! I will check that link!

Cheers~

ah, doesn't sound like much of a celebration then ):

Awesome Post !

Thanks for sharing. I have no idea how to

Some updates fixing the recent bugs and reliability issues would be awesome.