Details are revealed behind the official launch of ETHW, the Ethereum proof of work fork.
The EthereumPoW team faces scrutiny over delays in a proposed chainID change, and a last minute release of code.The Ethereum proof of work fork will deploy within 24 hours of The Merge.
That's according to a Twitter announcement by @EthereumPoW, the social media account behind the forthcoming ETHW mainnet, which laid out the plan in a thread detailing the strategy.
An official announcement is expected one hour before the exact time of the network launch. Afterwards the ETHW chainID will switch to 10001, and final code, config files, binaries, as well as other vital materials such as node data, RPC and explorer info will be made available.
To provide sufficient time for the chainID switch to take place, the mainnet will go live at the specified time after 2048 empty blocks are processed, meaning that the first ETHW block to contain any transactions on the mainnet will be the Merge block +2049 according to thread.
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