A fateful phone call affects the future of Ethereum.

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All lies on Ethereum.

On a phone call earlier today, leading Ethereum stakeholders failed to come to a consensus on some of the most challenging questions behind the world's second most valued cryptocurrency.

At the heart of the discussion, a piece of code named the difficulty bomb that makes the

platform's blocks deadly less efficient to mine.

Expected to activate in early 2019, developers are preparing for a system-wide upgrade in October

in order to delay or remove the code, a decision that impacts the platform's underlying

economics as well.

Because ether issuance impacts a wide set of stakeholders,

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