Just noting for general documentation/reference/reviewer-sanity that this ECIP aims for a current best-fit revision and summary for an existing and on-going thread around disabling the difficulty bomb. The main challenge is to settle on a fork block number that seems reasonably and certainly feasible to implement for the network (updating, nodes, miners ...), and for that number to be as soon as possible.
Just noting for general documentation/reference/reviewer-sanity that this ECIP aims for a current best-fit revision and summary for an existing and on-going thread around disabling the difficulty bomb. The main challenge is to settle on a fork block number that seems reasonably and certainly feasible to implement for the network (updating, nodes, miners ...), and for that number to be as soon as possible.
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