This hard fork is tentatively scheduled for roughly September 8th, almost a week before the merge. Interestingly enough, a man who was one of the chief architects of the Ethereum Classic fork ...

A key element of the upgrade involves increasing the amount of ETH one can stake from 32 to 2,048. This change could help ...

4. In essence, a shadow fork is a test run of the Merge. Without actually impacting the network, they simulate what the shift from PoW to PoS would look like by testing it on a small number of ...

To protest, they could fork off and create their own PoW versions of Ethereum when the upgrade takes effect. The forked networks would maintain the same wallet balances and transactional history as ...

That’s why, post-merge, miners hope to fork—a blockchain split of sorts—Ethereum to try to continue a proof-of-work chain to retain their livelihood—no matter how long the odds.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Merge, as it’s known, was supposed to be a piece of software engineering that would slash the network’s energy needs, allowing it create tokens more quickly and ...

A group calling themselves ETHW Core has voiced its opposition to the change and is set to conduct a hard fork within 24 hours after the Merge. Under the project name, ETHPoW and with the token ...

Although there is no merge-specific tax guidance, the merge looks akin to a “Soft fork” described in the IRS FAQ 30 published in 2019. The merge will not result in two Ethereum chains (there ...