12 minutes of nail-biting tension when Ethereum’s Pectra fork goes live

Despite all signs pointing to success, 100 devs will anxiously scan the Ethereum network for problems after the Pectra fork goes live tomorrow

Ethereum developers will be holding their breath for the 12 minutes it takes to work out if Ethereums Pectra hard fork has finalized properly after its deployed tomorrow.

During every Ethereum hard fork, there is roughly a 12-minute period the time it takes for two epochs where over a hundred tireless Ethereum developers vigilantly monitor the state of the network for signs of problems, wondering, Did we do enough?

Every time Ethereum goes through a major hard fork which is like replacing components of an airplane in mid-flight theres a niggling chance that something could go horribly wrong. 

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