Ethereum Classic Geth — v5.3.0 | Geth Update
1 min readMay 15, 2018
Check it out 😉; ETC Geth v5.3.0
Added
- implemented
personal_ecRecover
API method allowing return of address associated with the private key used to calculate the signature
Changed
- use deterministic K-value in ECDSA signing algorithm
- use default
--cache
value1024mb
instead of128mb
dramatically improving download & sync speed of the blockchain
Fixed
- possibility for
RequireBlockhash
nil pointer when using--sputnikvm
- failure to build with Golang 1.10.2 because of vendor dependency
- incompatibility makes
glog
tests deterministic
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Ethereum Classic hard fork will execute by May 24th or block 5,900,000. Please update your Geth or Parity! You can learn more about the fork here. This is NOT an airdrop, it’s an improvement to the ETC protocol!
Contributors
- @whilei
- @tzdybal
- @r8d8
- @sorpaas
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