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Ethereum Developers After Bellatrix Update: We See No Danger in Skipped Blocks

The community monitoring the impact of the Bellatrix update on Ethereum has noticed that the number of first-time blocks not confirmed on the network has increased significantly and is alarming.

The latest major update caused the network to malfunction, according to Twitter user Martin Köppelmann. He was the first to sound the alarm, saying that since the Ethereum update was launched, there has been a noticeable spike in “missed block rate”.

Those numbers jumped by about 1,700% after the Bellatrix update, he says. Traditionally, about 0.5% of all blocks in Ethereum fail verification on the first try. On September 6, more than 9% of all blocks encountered this problem.

“The frequency of missed blocks in the last 600 slots is 9%. Historically, this figure has been around 0.5%. This shows that Bellatrix has caused problems for some validators. Nothing dramatic, but still this is a parameter that needs to be monitored, ”an attentive community member warned.

Ethereum block validation concerns
supported partner of the venture capital company Cinneamhain Ventures (CEHV) with the nickname Adam Cochran:

“Hopefully this can be debugged before the merge, we don’t want to see unexpected problems at a later stage.”

Ethereum Core Developer Marius Van Der Wijden hastened to assure community that the issue is minor and will not affect the blockchain merger. Weid explained that the morning spike in missed blocks was due to many Ethereum node operators not updating their software:

“Nodes that haven’t upgraded yet have encountered a block validation issue.”

As of the evening of September 7, according to Ethernodes, 25.2% of Ethereum nodes had not yet updated their software. As a result, these nodes cannot validate blocks that come to them for validation. According to Weid, the impact on the network of non-renewed node operators was much less severe than expected. The developer added that he was generally satisfied with the work of the Bellatrix update and the work of most of the Ethereum nodes.

Currently, the attention of the entire crypto community is riveted on the transition to the merger of Ethereum, since it is believed that this
The hard fork will change the crypto industry well known to investors.


Source: Bits

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