Ethereum Istanbul Upgrade Announcement Posted by Hudson Jameson on November 20, 2019 The Ethereum network will be undergoing a scheduled upgrade at block number 9,069,000, which is predicted to occur on Saturday, December 7, 2019. The exact date is subject to change due to variable block times and timezones. Please upgrade your node before Sunday, December 1, 2019 to account for the variable block times. Ethernodes.org has kindly provided Istanbul node statistics and a countdown timer located at https://ethernodes.org/istanbul. etherscan.io has provided a countdown timer located at https://etherscan.io/block/countdown/9069000. You can monitor the network upgrade in real time at http://forkmon.ethdevops.io/. What is Istanbul? Istanbul is the name given to this network upgrade. Previous network upgrades have been given other names such as Costantinople, Spurious Dragon, and Byzantium. As an Ethereum user or ether holder is there anything I need to do? If you use an...