Walls of Constantinople Puns

I'm noticing that a lot of people have similar questions about Constantinople. I answered a lot of Constantinople questions in one comment, but I'm sure some redditors will miss my comment before asking the same questions. If any of these bullet points are wrong or inaccurate, please let me know so I can update them!

• Quick video that describes 4 of the 5 EIP updates
• The video was released before the Ethereum foundation added a 5th EIP to the update, EIP-1283.
• Progress tracker used for Constantinople. This is a great resource if you're looking to learn about the EIP's on a technical level.
• Transaction/confirmation time?
  • Block time should stay ~15 secs. Full PoS may change that, but with PoW there's some latency involved and a faster transaction speed may create blocks with unreliable transactions. ETH currently uses uncle blocks to deal with this.
• Cost of transaction?
  • Cost depends on the quantity of transactions. Some of the EIP's will optimize smart contract interactions, so hopefully the cost of transacting with a smart contract will decrease. However, we don't know if another dapp like Cryptokitties will show up, congesting the network and increasing fees.
• Number of transactions/second?
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/9edwkk/how_many_transactions_per_second_will_we_have/
  • TLDR; there will be the same average Tx's/second, but with how EIP-1024 will optimize state channels, we should see some second-layer solutions starting to come into play (think OMiseGo, Loom Network, Raiden, etc.)
• PoS instead of PoW?
  • Not yet, there's a lot of testing still going on with this. One of the reasons of EIP-1234 is to reduce block rewards in order to delay the difficulty bomb. Eventually, we'll have a beacon chain and sharding chains
• A new crypto? Or just an upgrade?
  • This is a hard fork and will create a ne

Am I missing something here? Or is this a fabrication designed to make this plot more dramatic, but I don’t think they’d do this on this show because it’s attempting to portray the situation as it was historically. I feel like maybe I understood what the narrator was trying to get at.

Sure! Sure. Suuuuuuuuure… Of course I'll hand you, some random, recently reconquered, and yet to be recivilized, Gallic tribune the Grand City of Byzantium together with half my demesne! The City of the World's Desire fits nicely into … what was it again?

Cologne, your Excellency.

Ah yes, Colonia. I see you can't even speak proper Latin without callously smearing the language of Caesar and Cicero in a vulgar Germanic accent. If your Latin is this atrocious, I dare not imagine the state of your Greek, lest I be smitten by Jove himself. Indeed, there is no better candidate to rule the largest of the Greek cities! We could even rename it Peppinopolis in your honour! Fuck Constantine! No need for me to save the greatest city east of Rome and west of Serica for my unborn son and prospective heir when I can hand it over to some transalpine lowborn tribune!

So … is that a yes?

No! You utter mentula! Fuck off back across the Alps where you belong, before I have you drawn and quartered! #AND IF YOU SHOW YOUR RANCID, BARBARIAN, BUTTERGOBBLING ARSE IN ROME AGAIN I WILL PERSONALLY PEDICABO TE ET IRRUMABO!

Constantinople comes from combining the name of Emperor -Constantine and the Greek word for the city -polis. In Latin, the word for city is -urbs, so the city would be called Constantinourbs?

In the Ethereum Dev call from 19.10.18 the consensus was to delay the Hardfork deployment from End of November to January or end of January.

Reasons for that were the still ongoing tests , especially the manual tests that are not completed yet. Also the release of the client is planned to be a month before the Hardfork goes live on the mainnet and not like in past Hardforks right before mainnet release.

The Ethereum devs feel like not putting pressure for a earlier release, but having a thoroughly tested and planned Hardfork deployment.

What’s your opinion on the delay?

Source: https://youtu.be/5Q67tmkZ5So

EDIT: Updated YouTube link