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Difficulty Bomb Delay to June 2022

A desk note on EIP 4345 (Difficulty Bomb Delay to June 2022). The file's status is Final. The note records the text. It does not measure who runs it.

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Authors: Tim Beiko, James Hancock, Thomas Jay Rush
Date: 2021
Publisher: Tim Beiko, James Hancock, Thomas Jay Rush
Version: Source cited by the 2021 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-1382
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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A desk note on EIP 4345 (Difficulty Bomb Delay to June 2022). The file's status is Final. The note records the text. It does not measure who runs it.

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Beiko, T., Hancock, J., & Rush, T. J. (2021). Difficulty Bomb Delay to June 2022. Tim Beiko, James Hancock, Thomas Jay Rush. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-4345.md

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@techreport{eip43452021,
  title = {Difficulty Bomb Delay to June 2022},
  author = {Tim Beiko, James Hancock, Thomas Jay Rush},
  year = {2021},
  institution = {Tim Beiko, James Hancock, Thomas Jay Rush},
  url = {https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-4345.md},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/eip-4345}
}

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AU  - James Hancock
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N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

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