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Earlier on Thursday, Ethereum switched to PoS, doing away with the need for miners.

Ethereum’s impending shift to proof-of-stake could not have happened without researchers, developers, volunteers and many, many client teams.

The miner used almost 30 million gwei to pay for that transaction.

Ethereum’s transition from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake was successfully completed just after 2:30 AM ET, or 5:30 AM GMT at block 15537391.

The historic upgrade casts aside the miners who had previously driven the blockchain, with promises of massive environmental benefits.

The immediate impact of the Merge on Bitcoin will probably be minimal.

CEO of venture capital firm Sino Global Capital, Matthew Graham, weighs in on Ethereum’s upcoming Merge and what the “seminal” moment may reveal about Chinese miners on CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover.”

Ethermine will stop its Ethereum mining service once the Merge happens, expected sometime on Sept. 15.

How to track the status of Ethereum’s shift to proof-of-stake with a few easy-to-use tools.

Raj Gokal, Solana Labs’ chief operating officer, joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” to discuss what the Merge could mean for Ethereum and how its Saga mobile phone stacks up in comparison to the iPhone 14.

The OpenWallet Foundation will work with a consortium of companies and non-profits to build an open-source software engine for the creation of digital wallets.

Lex Sokolin, head economist of decentralized protocols at ConsenSys, joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” to discuss why ether could be seen as a store of value as regular and institutional users stake their tokens on the network.

Bitcoin’s hashrate is reaching all-time highs, and it’s causing confusion about “the halvening” on Twitter.

The decentralized finance application has been exploited three times since going live in 2020.

Author of The Cryptopians Laura Shin joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” to discuss the Merge and what it could mean for the Ethereum community if the hard fork is successful.

Binance effectively announced a separate blockchain where transactions can be offloaded and processed faster and more cheaply.

At long last, the Ethereum Merge is finally around the corner. In this FAQ, we take a step back and quickly address a handful of the myths and misconceptions that have popped up surrounding the Merge, Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake scheduled for around Sept. 15.

Details on the actual usage of crvUSD are scanty at writing time, and Curve developers denied sharing more information about the tokens with CoinDesk.

As Bellatrix Activated, Ethereum protocol developer Preston Van Loon joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover,” to discuss the Merge and what it could mean for users and developers.

The activation of the Bellatrix upgrade on Ethereum triggers the beginning of the Merge, which will likely be completed sometime around Sept. 13-16.