The flippening is a hypothetical moment when Ethereum overtakes bitcoin in market capitalization and becomes the number one cryptocurrency. The reverse scenario is jokingly called the floppening.

On February 28, the Constantinople hard fork took place at block #7280000 on the network of the second-largest cryptocurrency by capitalization, Ethereum. Simultaneously with Constantinople, the St. Petersburg hard fork was activated on the Ethereum network. Its task is to disable the EIP-1283 protocol, in which problems with a Reentrancy-type vulnerability were discovered. It was precisely because of these that the upgrade was canceled in January.

The implementation of the ProgPow algorithm in Ethereum has been postponed; it was supposed to reduce the efficiency of Bitmain's ASIC miners when mining Ethereum , which, in turn, would have made graphics processors more competitive. This decision was made by the Ethereum developers during a conference call this Friday...

The confrontation between the crypto giants Tron and Ethereum arose as a result of Tron's aggressive promotion in the crypto space, when it moved from operating on the Ethereum platform to its own platform. This confrontation continues to this day...

The transaction volume in the Ethereum network in December 2018 reached $115 million, which according to specialists of the analytics company Diar is the maximum value over the entire existence of the Ethereum project...