Numerous sources have informed that the Dash blockchainย tech came to a standstill at block height 1,874,879 following an attempted upgrade to version 19 by the developers. Currently, data signifies that the most up-to-date block verified on the network was over 16 hours ago.
Dash Network Upgrade Fails, Resulting in Block Production Halt, Cause Is Asย ofย now Unknown
On Monday, May 22, 2023, block production came to a halt, prompting Dash Core Group CTO Samuel Westrich to take to Twitter at 1:12 a.m. Eastern (ET) to address theย complication. In his tweet, Westrich revealed that the Dash Core upgrade to version 19 had encountered a snag, causing the chain to stall and block production to cease.
โThe chain is stalled and asย ofย now not producing blocks. We have everyone investigating theย complication. I will continue with updates onย Twitterย platform as we have more information,โ he wrote.
As of 4:30 p.m. (ET) on Monday, block production remains at a standstill. There are likewise indications that the upgrade may have caused a fork, resulting in two separate chains. Forย instance, the blockchainย tech explorer at dash.org reports that the last block mined was block height 1,874,879, which was mined by Viabtc. Nonetheless, Blockchairโs explorer shows that block 1,874,880 was mined by Binanceโs mining pool, suggesting that the chain may have bifurcated.
News of the block production glitch quickly spread across social media platforms like Twitter. Just days before on May 15, the official Dashpay Twitter account had urged all users of the Dash network to โupdate their software to accommodate theย following hard fork.โ Nextย to 5 hours ago, the Dash Core developer by the name of Pasta stated that the release of version 19.1.0 would address the issues at hand.
Dash is down for greaterย than 15 hours now owingย to a faulty hard-forking upgrade
โ Nikita Zhavoronkov (@nikzh) May 22, 2023
โThis release should resolve the chain stall once a sufficient number of masternodes and miners have upgraded,โ Pasta wrote. โPlease be aware of the known issues listed in the release notice. A reindex couldย be needed.โ The tweet written by Pasta wasย released at 1:33 p.m. ET on Monday. A Twitter user by the name of Dash Memes responded to Pasta to thank the developers for the new release.
โThank you for hard work pushing this out. I hope serious effort is put into the post-mortem to evaluate how this came to pass and what can be done to eliminate this danger for ever happening again,โ the Twitter user replied. โDashโs reputation has been seriously damaged today, the fix hasย toย be structural.โ
