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Add difficulty bomb info to frontier-thawing #6644

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Expand Up @@ -392,9 +392,10 @@ The Homestead fork that looked to the future. It included several protocol chang

#### Summary {#frontier-thawing-summary}

The frontier thawing fork lifted the 5,000 [gas](/glossary/#gas) limit per [block](/glossary/#block) and set the default gas price to 51 [gwei](/glossary/#gwei). This allowed for transactions – transactions require 21,000 gas.
The frontier thawing fork lifted the 5,000 [gas](/glossary/#gas) limit per [block](/glossary/#block) and set the default gas price to 51 [gwei](/glossary/#gwei). This allowed for transactions – transactions require 21,000 gas. The [difficulty bomb](/glossary/#difficulty-bomb) was introduced to ensure a future hard-fork to [proof-of-stake](/glossary/#pos).

[Read the Ethereum Foundation announcement](https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/04/the-thawing-frontier/)
[Read the Ethereum Protocol Update 1](https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/08/04/ethereum-protocol-update-1/)

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