Ethereum's long-awaited upgrade, Constantinople, will have to wait a bit longer.

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Ethereum's next hard fork, dubbed Constantinople, will be postponed until early

2019, developers confirmed in a meeting on Friday. Initially targeted to activate in

November of this year, developers opted to postpone the

hard fork push after several bugs were found in the code that was released on a test network.

Now, aiming for some time in late January or February, developers on the call Friday agreed that

moving ahead with the hard fork next month would be unwise.

Constantinople features five backward incompatible changes to the network,

from minor code optimizations to more controversial changes,

like one that would reduce the amount of new eth created with each transaction block.

Martin Holstwynd, security lead at the Ethereum Foundation, said there could be time then

to add code for another proposal dubbed Prague Proof-Proof-Work into Constantinople.

Prague-Proof-work is aimed at shoring up Ethereum's resistance to the specialized mining hardware A6,

which many think could price out smaller mining operations

that use GPUs and could trigger some centralizing effects.

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