Bitcoin, as it is known, has been painted red for several days and Ethereum (ETH) and it has had its fair share of it.
ETH, which has fallen by about 5% in 24 hours, is about to lose the $ 3,000 support, and below that is quite dangerous.
It seems like price action isn’t the only thing ETH investors should be afraid of.
One of the most important pioneering steps of Ethereum 2.0. kintsugi A major problem has been detected in the testnet.
There was a major problem with Kintsugi’s testnet, which will enable the transition from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake on the Ethereum network.
Started testing in December kintsugi, encountered an error in a short time.
In a statement on the subject, Marius van de Wijden, one of the developers, stated that the testnet continued for a few weeks without any problems, but with a software error that appeared last week, invalid blocks were sent to the network.
ETH Testnet Split In Two
In Van der Wijden’s test, invalid blocks were normally rejected by nodes in the network, but this did not happen and the blocks were accepted.
The famous developer stated that this caused a big network problem and actually the network split. geth while their clients reject new blocks, nethermind and besu its clients accepted the blocks and the network was officially split.
After the first split, another split took place. This split occurred directly inside the Geth client. Geth network nodes Lighthouse-Geth, Prysm-Geth, Lodestar-Geth, Nimbus-Geth and Teku-Geth The network contains nodes, which are also divided into two.
While the developer has stated that this is a major issue, experiencing these on the testnet is worrying but considered normal.
Still, such issues can prolong the arrival time of ETH 2.0.