ETH network attack is not over yet, the fourth hard fork is scheduled for next Tuesday

Ethereum developers have announced details of their fourth technical fork, aimed at addressing ongoing attacks on the network.

The code for this hard fork will be written into several major ETH clients and executed at 2,675,000区块, which is expected to be next Tuesday.

One or more unknown attackers have been creating empty accounts on the ETH blockchain in an attempt to crash the network. This ETH update will remove all empty accounts via a hard fork. Hard forks have always been considered a dangerous way to update software (because all miners need to upgrade to the new network, otherwise it is likely to cause a split).

But according to some developers, the situation is more complicated than expected. The continuous attacks have caused delays in the processing time of blocks and transactions in the network. Although some details of this fork have been announced earlier, users are still asking for further updates.

The news of this hard fork is likely to attract criticism of ETH again. This is the fourth hard fork of ETH, and the second one was the most controversial because the developers modified the transaction history of ETH, which indirectly led to the split of the network.

Last month, ETH conducted its third hard fork, which was less negatively reported. Developers said the fourth hard fork would not be controversial because it was also a purely technical update and should go as smoothly as the last one.

The hard fork also includes protection against replay attacks, an issue that has plagued ETH users all summer since the network split.