Upcoming Ethereum hard fork
UPDATE (27 February 2019): The Ethereum Constantinople & St. Petersburg fork will take place on block 7 280 000 around 8 PM UTC on 28 February 2019. Bitstamp will support the fork and trading will continue as normal.
ETH deposits and withdrawals at Bitstamp will be halted 45 minutes before the fork and will resume 45 minutes after the fork.
This fork will not result in the creation of a new cryptocurrency, it is just a scheduled update for Ethereum.
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UPDATE (16 January 2019): The scheduled Ethereum fork has been postponed due to a vulnerability in the code. Therefore, ETH deposits and withdrawals at Bitstamp will remain open as normal.
The Constantinople fork will take place at a later date, but the exact timing hasn’t been announced yet.
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Dear customers,
A planned Ethereum hard fork will take place this week, implementing several significant updates to modernize and improve scalability of the blockchain. Your ether is safe at Bitstamp during this update and you do not need to take any special action because of the fork.
The fork will take place on Ethereum block 7 080 000, around 4 AM UTC on 17 January 2019. Because of time zone differences and uncertainty about when exactly the block will be mined, 16 January is commonly listed online as the date of the fork.
ETH deposits and withdrawals at Bitstamp will be halted 45 minutes before the fork and will resume 45 minutes after the fork. We do not expect any complications to arise during the upgrade, but reserve the right to keep ETH transfers offline longer, should it prove necessary.
Trading will continue as normal through the fork.
Constantinople is not a contentious fork for the Ethereum community and will not result in a new currency. This is just a scheduled update.
Best,
The Bitstamp Team
ETH deposits and withdrawals at Bitstamp will be halted 45 minutes before the fork and will resume 45 minutes after the fork.
This fork will not result in the creation of a new cryptocurrency, it is just a scheduled update for Ethereum.
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UPDATE (16 January 2019): The scheduled Ethereum fork has been postponed due to a vulnerability in the code. Therefore, ETH deposits and withdrawals at Bitstamp will remain open as normal.
The Constantinople fork will take place at a later date, but the exact timing hasn’t been announced yet.
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Dear customers,
A planned Ethereum hard fork will take place this week, implementing several significant updates to modernize and improve scalability of the blockchain. Your ether is safe at Bitstamp during this update and you do not need to take any special action because of the fork.
The fork will take place on Ethereum block 7 080 000, around 4 AM UTC on 17 January 2019. Because of time zone differences and uncertainty about when exactly the block will be mined, 16 January is commonly listed online as the date of the fork.
ETH deposits and withdrawals at Bitstamp will be halted 45 minutes before the fork and will resume 45 minutes after the fork. We do not expect any complications to arise during the upgrade, but reserve the right to keep ETH transfers offline longer, should it prove necessary.
Trading will continue as normal through the fork.
Constantinople is not a contentious fork for the Ethereum community and will not result in a new currency. This is just a scheduled update.
Best,
The Bitstamp Team