ETH “The Merge”, part III — Some acquisitions during merging

As we’ve discussed previously, the Merge itself should go through more-or-less seamlessly (or at least we hope so), and no additional actions are required if you just want to HODL that ETH.

Vladimir Shtanko

Sep 7, 2022

ETH “The Merge”, part II — Get to PoSition

See the first part of this series, I’ve got the PoWer

PoW and blockchains in general have a lot of other problems other than seemingly excessive energy consumption. But ETH PoS doesn’t actually solve any of them. More on that soon.

Vladimir Shtanko

Sep 7, 2022

ETH “The Merge”, part I — I’ve got the PoWer

Let’s have a quick refresher on what PoW is. If you are familiar on how BTC or ETH work, you can skip this section.

We all’ve heard of miners, who use expensive specialised computer equipment to “mine” cryptocurrency. “Mining” is a process where miner…