Ether (Ether, ETH) is the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain platform, the second most important in the industry. In traders' jargon there are playful distortions of the name — "kefir," "efir," "zemfir" — but they always refer to one asset.

Gas is a unit measuring the computing resources needed to perform operations in the Ethereum network. The more complex a transaction, the more gas it consumes and the higher the resulting fee for processing it.

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...