Profits from Ethereum mining drove prices of graphics processing units (GPU) well above their suggested retail price last year. Now, as The Merge date looms close, the question of what will happen to ...
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The Merge gets rid of ‘proof of waste’
Ben Edgington’s career has run the gamut from academia through supercomputing, and now working on Ethereum. The Merge is just the latest stop on his journey. After joining ConsenSys in 2017, Ed...
Hudson Jameson reflects on the journey to The Merge
Hudson Jameson can code, but he’d prefer to leave that to others who are more skilled. He’d rather do the talking. After growing up in Northeast Texas, he studied computer science at the University ...
How Ethereum’s monetary policy will change after The Merge
Ethereum is on the brink of The Merge, which will transition the network from proof of work to proof of stake. This major shift is being undertaken primarily to reduce the network’s energy consumption...
After The Merge, Ethereum NFTs will be environmentally friendly
After years of delay, Ethereum is set to migrate to a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism this month, reducing the energy consumption needed to run the blockchain. This will have a big impact on NFTs...
Why The Merge won’t solve Ethereum’s scaling challenges
Ethereum’s pivot from proof of work to proof of stake is imminent. But despite common belief, the event, known as The Merge, will not solve the network’s scalability challenges. This pivot, schedule...