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- 1 The privacy coin blockchain was going through implementation of v19 hard fork.
- 2 DASH is trading at 44.21 USD, up by over 4% since last week.
Chief technology officer of Dash Core Group, Samuel Westrich, recently took to Twitter and informed about the release of the Hotfix v19.1.0 update. He informed the block’s production resuming over the blockchain, which halted following the potential failure of its hard fork. With the suggestion of upgrading the version, he added over 40% of the network upgraded and signaled its completion soon.
Westrich informed the halt over the blockchain and production of blocks on Monday, May 22. One of the anticipated upgrades on Dash blockchain, Dash Core v19 hard fork, has faced some glitches. Following the failure, the block formation over the blockchain stalled for hours. He assured of the investigation and to update the development over Twitter.
Hotfix v19.1.0 was released yesterday. Blocks have been being produced for about 7 hours now. We advise to upgrade to this version asap. Currently around 40%+ of the network has upgraded and the figure is rising quickly. Thanks to everyone involved in the rapid update.
— Samuel Westrich (@SamWestrich) May 23, 2023
Recent data on blockchain explorer indicates the block production over the Dash blockchain resumed. However, there is a difference in the data as some other explorers still show the last block was produced over 24 hours ago. The instance indicates a potential hard fork of privacy transactions facilitating blockchain.
According to the data on blockchain explorer Blockchain, Dash blockchain stands at the block height of 1,875,156 blocks at the time of writing. The block containing two transactions was produced by ViaBTC on May 23, 2023, at 6:32 AM UTC. The data shows proper functioning and block formation over blockchain.
Dash.org blockchain explorer was also indicating the block height was stuck at 1,874,879 blocks, with the last block mined by ViaBTC. However, currently, it is showcasing a block height of 1,875,156 blocks.
The data shown on CryptoID Explorer is still showing that block production halted at 1,874,749. The reason for the disparity between the block-mined data is still unclear.
Though CTO Westrich informed the Dash blockchain was functioning well, the previous v18 update also witnessed hiccups.
Dash announced the v19 update on April 10, 2023. Following the update, the privacy coin network was expected to see an improvement in security. It aimed to implement high-performance masternodes, implementation of BLS v1.0 signatures, and improvements of its wallets. All these efforts were in the wake of preparation to release the Dash Platform to the mainnet.
The last update, v18 on Dash, was implemented in September, last year, which saw its upgrade in January, this year. The network faced an attempt of a hack to make several master nodes offline. During the release of the update also, the chain had been stalled for a while.