Vitalik Buterin Issues Update on Ethereum's 'Metropolis' Upgrade
Work on 'Metropolis' – the next scheduled software release for the ethereum blockchain project – continues, according to a new blog post from its creator, Vitalik Buterin. While absent of any concrete release date, the blog offers a window into the platform's development efforts, as well as details about the changes that could be included in the Metropolis update. Metropolis follows two previous versions of ethereum, 'Homestead' (released last March) and 'Frontier', which debuted in July 2015. As detailed by CoinDesk in December, ethereum's developer team has largely been looking ahead to....
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