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Vitalik: Ethereum Merge Just Finalized

by m1guelpf on 9/15/22, 7:01 AM with 27 comments

• by edf13 on 9/15/22, 8:38 AM

  And even here the spam/bot tweets are present...

  https://twitter.com/indosat/status/1570322826363559936

  What's more worrying is that people are sending ETH to the scammers wallet: https://etherscan.io/address/0x266cfB7f9c908591FD69d79Dd46B4...

  Currently at: $57k USD!

  Someone recently sent $12k USD! https://etherscan.io/tx/0x30661485e12c1e3991369110b6a511f9c2...

• by qalmakka on 9/15/22, 9:27 AM

  I hope this and future endeavors will stop the GPU hoarding madness for good.

• by ralusek on 9/15/22, 12:11 PM

  Can someone explain why the move to PoS isn't going to reduce transaction time, increase network capacity, and reduce gas prices? Is this because of arbitrary parameters in place in order to keep that true?

  From a technical perspective, I don't know how a consensus mechanism moving from a system for which slowness/hardness is the mechanism...to instead moving to a system for which slowness need not even be a factor, could possibly not result in faster transaction speeds.

• by amanzi on 9/15/22, 9:21 AM

  My only crypto-mining success is that I mined an ether back in the day when it was worth $10. I have it stashed away for a rainy day, but I have no idea if it's going to be worth anything in the future. Can anyone give a TLDR of what this merge means?

• by xnorswap on 9/15/22, 8:27 AM

  Twitter really needs to sort out what it means to be "verified", when you're presented with this: https://imgur.com/a/HjOF0gS

  It's so barely different to an actual twitter thread where the same person is saying all three parts.

• by pwdisswordfish9 on 9/15/22, 9:11 AM

  Merge of what? Trans-dimensional merge like CWC believes in?

• by Yuioup on 9/15/22, 10:04 AM

  3 posts about this nonsense on the front page. Can we please stop destroying the planet with this global pyramid scheme?

  Seriously why isn't there a UN summit to tackle the Crypto problem?