The time for “The Byzantium” testnet launch has been announced.
This is the first of two phases for the Metropolis Network Upgrade for Ethereum.
(read more:
https://steemit.com/ethereum/@joshbreslauer/ethereum-metropolis-upgrade-in-late-september)
The Ethereum core developers announced Sep 18th for the Metropolis Byzantium Testnet to start.
Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #24 [9/8/17]
Agenda #22: https://github.com/ethereum/pm/issues/22
Meeting Date/Time: Friday 9/8/17 at 14:00 UTC
Meeting Duration 1.5 hours
Reminder: Metropolis is now split into 2 hard forks: "Byzantium" first and then "Constantinople".
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If things work well the real network upgrade is to be launched around October 9 or later .
Depending on appearing problems or issues the time period for the test phase might change and will shift the actual date of the real Hard Fork further.
Vitalik Buterin
"... It's not september.
It's October 9th, unless something goes wrong with the testnet"
Peter Szilagyi
"If things go wrong, they will go wrong fast !"
