<story><title>Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement</title><url>https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/10/12/byzantium-hf-announcement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>runeks</author><text>&amp;gt; Delay of the ice age &amp;#x2F; difficulty bomb by 1 year, and reduction of block reward from 5 to 3 ether&lt;p&gt;I wonder if the planned switch to proof-of-stake is ever going to happen.&lt;p&gt;In any case, what&amp;#x27;s the point of continuously postponing a pre-programmed difficulty bomb (via a hard for), when miners can just remove this part from the code and continue with that fork if they wish? Because of this, it seems like it doesn&amp;#x27;t do much difference compared to just switching to PoS via a hard fork whenever it&amp;#x27;s ready. I mean, if miners really want to continue with PoW, removing those couple of lines, that define the difficulty time bomb, from the Ethereum code surely won&amp;#x27;t be a problem, right?</text></comment>
<story><title>Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement</title><url>https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/10/12/byzantium-hf-announcement/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Gaelan</author><text>What’s this about an “ice age”?</text></comment>