1 year ago

It’s a milestone week for blockchain technology, as Ethereum moves from the environmentally damaging proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to the energy efficient proof-of-stake (PoS). In a project nicknamed “https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/,” Ethereum will first bring together the two consensus mechanisms, and then drop PoW completely once PoS has taken over. The Merge is predicted to complete on late Wednesday evening PT (there’s https://www.google.com/search?q=ethereum+merge+date you can track for the countdown).

Edgington has been working on the Merge project for the past four years and is also product lead of a PoS consensus client called Teku.

“It’s kind of hard to put a start date on Merge stuff,” Edgington said, “because it’s been a project that sort of evolved.”