{"id":1999,"date":"2020-01-01T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T17:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2022-10-03T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:43:02","slug":"december-2019-work-progress-report-zcash-hardfork-ethereum-muir-glacier-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/december-2019-work-progress-report-zcash-hardfork-ethereum-muir-glacier-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"December 2019 Work Progress Report: Zcash\u00a0Hardfork,\u00a0Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nervos CKB Asia and US Servers,\u00a0Zcash\u00a0Blossom Hardfork,\u00a0Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nervos CKB mainnet was launched in November. This month we&#8217;ve upgraded our pool, which is now even more robust and high-efficiency. US and ASIA servers have been added as well. Zcash network has been upgraded. Ethereum wants to postpone the difficulty bomb again.<\/p>\n<h2>Happy New Year<\/h2>\n<p>We wish you a Happy New Year. 2Miners team is always working hard making the best cryptocurrency mining pool. No matter what the Bitcoin price would be in 2020, mining would be alive.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/mining-in-2020-what-to-expect-from-the-industry\/\">Mining in 2020 \u2013 What To Expect From The Industry?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2002\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1075\" data-wp-pid=\"2002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hny.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hny-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hny-768x688.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hny-1024x917.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/hny-800x717.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Nervos CKB 2Miners Updates<\/h2>\n<p>Nervos CKB Asia and US Servers are now Online on 2Miners. You could always find the nearest location: Europe \/ USA \/ Asia<\/p>\n<p>All servers are presented on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ckb.2miners.com\/\">home page<\/a> of the pool and the <a href=\"https:\/\/ckb.2miners.com\/en\/help\">Help page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CKB mining is available in both <a href=\"https:\/\/ckb.2miners.com\/en\/help\">PPLNS<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/solo-ckb.2miners.com\/en\/help\">SOLO<\/a> modes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2003\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nervos-mining.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-wp-pid=\"2003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nervos-mining.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nervos-mining-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nervos-mining-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nervos-mining-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nervos-mining-800x450.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Zcash ZEC Hard Fork<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.zcashcommunity.com\/t\/announcing-zcash-blossom-and-proposed-feature-goals\/31891\">Blossom Hardfork<\/a> has been performed in Zcash (ZEC) on block 653600.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Block reward has been reduced by half: 10 ZEC -&gt; 5 ZEC<\/li>\n<li>Block time has been reduced by half: 150 s -&gt; 75 s<\/li>\n<li>Miners should get the same rewards as before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This upgrade was planned to improve speed, scalability, and capacity of the network.<\/p>\n<h2>Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade<\/h2>\n<p>Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade is expected on block number 9 200 000 (January 2nd).<\/p>\n<p>2Miners miners should not worry about that. No settings should be changed. Just continue mining and celebrate the New Year!<\/p>\n<p>One of the main ideas of this upgrade is to reduce the block time postponing the <a href=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/february-work-progress-report\/#ConstantinopleSt_Petersburg_Ethereum_Upgrade\">difficulty bomb<\/a> again. Constantinople Hard Fork has postponed the difficulty bomb for 1 year. This time the ETH developers want to postpone it again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2004\" src=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ethereum_block_time_chart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1558\" height=\"729\" data-wp-pid=\"2004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ethereum_block_time_chart.png 1558w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ethereum_block_time_chart-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ethereum_block_time_chart-768x359.png 768w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ethereum_block_time_chart-1024x479.png 1024w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ethereum_block_time_chart-800x374.png 800w, https:\/\/2miners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/ethereum_block_time_chart-1200x561.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1558px) 100vw, 1558px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pool2miners\"><b>MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW US ON TWITTER\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nervos CKB Asia and US Servers,\u00a0Zcash\u00a0Blossom Hardfork,\u00a0Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mining"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>December 2019 Work Progress Report: Zcash\u00a0Hardfork,\u00a0Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade - Crypto Mining Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nervos CKB Asia and US Servers,\u00a0Zcash\u00a0Blossom Hardfork,\u00a0Ethereum Muir Glacier Upgrade. 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