Coinbase asks ETHPOW devs to get their act together about their plans for the fork

https://github.com/ethereumpow/go-ethereum/pull/17

It seems like amateur hour over at the ETHPOW repo. Coinbase had to submit a PR to ask for clarification because the issue tracker was disabled for some reason.

There's no clarity on when the chain will be available or when it will get activated. There's also a problem with the chain ID because they still haven't changed it to differentiate it from ETHPOS's ID so there's a risk of replay attacks.

The comments are savage af:

I think ETHPOW core lost access to this repo, they don't see to answer any pull request or do any commit in the last 14 days, so isn't probablly a good way of communications

And this one:

Is there any reason you can't add a function to switch chainID once TTD is hit, so that you can actually release a client that functions through the merge and can be released earlier

That requires a developer intern with a high school understanding of if conditionals. Probably can't find one.

I wasn't going to try to do anything with the POW fork, but now I don't think they can even pull it off. The Merge is next week.