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Istanbul Upgrade

Ropsten block #6485846 hit ~ 2 days before expected for Istanbul to be on testnet. A few issues were reported initially, though situation was brought under control very soon. Many thanks to all Ethereum core developers and active community. Ethereum All Core Devs are reachable at AllCoreDevs Gitter.

Ropsten Testnet Analysis by Peter from Geth team is available in notes 72.

Ice Age EIP will not be included in Istanbul.

Geth team defining Eth 64 as Fork ID and rolling it out. Ref EIP 2124.

Team ECH published a detailed guide to Istanbul upgrade, and its activation on the Ethereum test networks — “Istanbul Testnets Are Coming!”

Stay tuned for upcoming ACD meeting to get more update on Istanbul testnet.

Hardfork Meta — Istanbul: EIP 1679

— Istanbul: EIP 1679 Clients implementation can be tracked here.

Devcon V

Cat Herders at Devcon (From left to right: Charles Plant St.Louis, Lane Rettig, Hudson Jameson, Tim Beiko)

CNBC Africa: Why Ethereum will Succeed ! (Hudson Jameson Interview at 4:55)

Meetings

Ethereum Cat Herders

Agenda #20

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Notes

Next meeting is proposed on Tuesday, 29 October 2019 at 1400 UTC.

Ethereum All Core Dev

Agenda 72

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Notes

Next All Core Dev call #73 is proposed on Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00 UTC.

Ethereum 2.0

Agenda #25

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Notes

Next meeting TBA

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