Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain technology that makes it possible to run and verify smart contracts. Smart contracts make it possible for people to do business without a central authority.
Participants own and can see all transaction records, which can't be changed, can be checked, and are sent out safely. Ethereum accounts are used to send and receive transactions. For transactions to be processed on the network, the person sending them must sign them and pay Ether.
Ethereum says that the Merge upgrade worked, and there will be more.
The Merge is a big step toward making the Ethereum blockchain use less electricity, but more improvements are still being made.
The last part of the Paris upgrade was done at 2:45 p.m. Hong Kong time, according to the Ethereum Foundation. This means that the long wait for the Ethereum network upgrade is over.
With The Merge, the second-largest blockchain in the world, which has a market value of US$200 billion, will have a major overhaul of its infrastructure. This will allow it to use less energy and possibly speed up transactions while using less energy.
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, talked at a Merge event that was live-streamed and said that the event was important but that there was still a lot more to come.
He said, "Let's go build all the other parts of that ecosystem and make Ethereum what we want it to be." The Merge shows me the difference between early Ethereum and the Ethereum we've always hoped it would become.
Ether, a digital currency, hit a high of $1,648 on Thursday before dropping 0.5% to $1,611 after the Merge announcement.
The value of the second-largest token on the market has grown by about 50% in the three months before the Merge. But more general macroeconomic worries, like rising interest rates in the US, have stopped the growth of the cryptocurrency sector in recent months.
In an interview with Forkast, Justin d'Anethan, Institutional Sales Director at digital asset trader Amber Group, said that the macro narrative that is dragging on risk assets makes this a very interesting time for the Merge to happen. The Merge should be a very good or happy time for people who have money in bitcoins.
"I'm still generally excited about Ethereum," says d'Anethan. "But I wouldn't try to guess the schedule for the next few weeks or months because there are so many unknowns."
After the Merge, Ethereum switched from a proof-of-work (PoW) system to a proof-of-stake (PoS) system (PoW). Based on how much Ether they have staked in the network, PoS asks users to verify transactions on the blockchain.
Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency in the world, uses the original PoW system, in which crypto miners validate transactions by running computer farms that use a lot of energy.
The Ethereum Foundation says that switching to PoS will make the network use 99.95% less energy. Jonathan Victor, who is in charge of NFT and Web3 storage at the open-source research and development company Protocol Labs, told Forkast in a written statement that this is good for Ethereum and the whole cryptocurrency industry at a time when it is under scrutiny because of a global push to decarbonize economies.
He went on to say that this is a problem for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the vast majority of which are hosted on Ethereum, and that most organizations are trying to reach net zero by 2050, and that the Merge would bring ETH much closer to this goal. Even the most vocal critics of the NFT will be glad to see these people leave.
In the middle of The Merge's excitement and commotion, D'Anethan asked investors and the wider crypto community to stay calm.
d'Anethan says that investors need to see through the hype and realize that this is not the end goal. "It sets the stage for many future improvements to Ethereum."
THE LONG HISTORY OF THE MERGE 2014: In the introduction to the Ethereum white paper, Vitalik Buterin says that proof-of-work will probably have to be replaced by something else in the future.
In 2015, Ethereum was set up. About 72 million ether coins were made in the first block. Buterin got 553 000 of these units of ether.
In October 2020, Ethereum will offer a beacon chain deposit contract to find out how much people want proof-of-stake. After the merge, you could become an ethereum transaction validator if you staked 32 ether (ethereum promises).
November 2020: The beacon chain has 524,288 ether staked, which is the minimum amount required by Ethereum for the chain to be seen as a working mechanism.
The beacon chain starts in December 2020, seven days after the staking barrier is reached. Right now, the chain is being coded and tested to see if it can handle all of Ethereum's transactions.
In September 2022, the merger was done.
Ethereum switched from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism on September 15, 2022. This process was called "the Merge."
This change did happen. Because of this, Ethereum's energy use dropped by about 99.5%, which is the same as saving an estimated 110 terawatt-hours of energy every year (110 billion kilowatt-hours). Users of Ethereum don't have to do anything for the upgrade to happen.
During the Merge, the Beacon Chain took the place of the Ethereum blockchain's proof-of-work mining method. The Beacon Chain is a proof-of-stake blockchain network where validators stake ether to protect the network.
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