The Ethereum network has but completed its Muir Glacier hard fork, with the sole comeback proposal being to filibuster the difficulty bomb for another 4,000,000 blocks.

As of printing time, the bulk of clients were running in sync, although according to ethernodes, the nethermind client was all the same having some issues, and had fallen over 150 blocks.

Live client status after Muir Glacier hard fork

Live client condition after Muir Glacier hard fork. Source: ethernodes

Upgrade comes hot on the heels of Istanbul

The Muir Glacier hard fork comes less than a calendar month after the previous Istanbul upgrade on Dec. 7. In fact, the latest difficult fork simply became necessary following the Istanbul upgrade, due to a realization that estimates predicting the timing of Ethereum'southward difficulty flop for mid-2020 were wrong.

The difficulty bomb is a mechanism to gradually increase the difficulty of new cake cosmos and is a step on the roadmap to Ethereum switching to a proof-of-pale consensus algorithm.

Coming, set up or not

Earlier the hard fork, there was some concern equally to how ready the network was for the upgrade, as has been borne out past the nethermind client'due south failure to sync for over two hours.

Discounting nethermind's synching issues, it is estimated that effectually 80% of the full active nodes on the network are Muir Glacier-fix.

Every bit Cointelegraph reported, Binance announced its back up for the upgrade ii days agone. However, ethernodes currently has no information on the condition of some of the other large exchanges, such equally Coinbase.