The developers behind a potential Ethereum PoW (ETHW) fork have released code that includes removing EIP-1559 when distributing coins to miners. The community found a serious flaw in this.

The ETHW team released the first code yesterday, including removing EIP1559 and deploying it to miners. People found a loophole to get all the blocks in front of the London fork. The team released the patch code for the vulnerability this morning. https://t.co/uV4T5a3OUI

— Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) 16 August 2022

“People discovered a bug that would revert all blocks to pre-London hard forks. In the morning the team released a patch for this vulnerability,” wrote journalist Colin Wu.

Twitter user zhijie explained that the bug will block blocks that were released after the aforementioned hard fork was added to the chain.

Hm, maybe I’m wrong, but the code below will cause the state root to change in a block and eventually prevent the hash change. Not all blocks have been accepted by the ethpow chain since the London fork. In other words, ethpow will actually be a fork since London. @EthereumPoW @ChandlerGuo https://t.co/7v8oJ07c5p pic.twitter.com/43A8stkEO4

– zhijie (@z_j_s) 15 August 2022

“In other words, ETH PoW would actually be a fork of the chain since London was activated,” he detailed.

“Alternative ether” supporters thanked developer Alexei Akhunov for solving the issue.

At the end of July, influential Chinese miner Chandler Guo fork idea With the emergence of an extension of Ethereum that will continue to work on the Proof-of-Work algorithm. The resulting ETHW asset will allow miners of the second-largest cryptocurrency, with capitalization, to continue working after the merger.

Earlier, supporters of the Ethereum PoW fork called it “inevitable”. However, CoinShares experts were skeptical about the future of the cryptocurrency, calling it “impractical”.