The clock is ticking: Osaka/Mendel goes live tomorrow 🕰️
On April 28th at 05:30 MSK, the BNB Chain is activating the hard fork Osaka/Mendel. For those keeping an eye on the network, you’ll recall that Fermi ramped up the block times to 0.45 seconds, while Maxwell settled them at 0.75 seconds. Now, the race for speed has shifted to a race for stability.
What will the new hard fork bring?
🔸 Finality without waiting: introducing the "in-memory voting pool". Transactions will be confirmed faster and more reliably thanks to validator voting in memory.
🔸 Predictable gas: limits are being set on Blob transactions and upper caps for heavy operations like modular exponentiation. Fees will no longer skyrocket during peak loads.
🔸 Ethereum compatibility: integrating 6 EIPs and enhancing support for secp256r1 cryptography. BNB Chain is becoming more accessible for external projects.
Bottom line: the network isn’t trying to impress with numbers. It's aiming to be more reliable, understandable, and predictable for developers. It might sound boring, but this is exactly what mass adoption needs.
What do you think, do these subtle hard forks really impact the price of $BNB ? Or does the market only wake up to hype and memes? 👇
Nobody knows the real Satoshi. But his old code is known 🤫
A couple of months before the Bitcoin launch, it looked COMPLETELY different. Satoshi shared an early build with a select few, and the numbers were so unbelievable you wouldn't believe your eyes 🫣
Take a look yourself:
🔸 Max supply — 1.99 BILLION coins 🔸 Block reward — 10,000 BTC 🔸 Halving every 100,000 blocks 🔸 Difficulty adjusted once a month 🔸 It was all called timechain 🫠
Then, just a couple of weeks before the launch, he completely revamped it. He slashed the supply by 95 times down to 21 million. Cut the reward down to 50 BTC. Added eight decimal places and renamed it to blockchain.
Why? I think he realized: people will only hold onto what’s hard to mine. Scarcity beat availability.
One decision — and we live in a different reality 😬
👇 Now, here's a question for you: What if he had kept those settings and we ended up with 1.9 billion coins — would Bitcoin be worth anything now? Or would it be worthless?