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Tim Beiko: Ethereum Foundation – The Ethereum Merge

Epicenter - Learn about Crypto, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin and Distributed Technologies

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How Does a Post Merge Architecture Work?

maynet manot uses a, usees proof of work, but a lot of the testnuts don't write. And so there was this idea of what if we simply had like, the soft ware that's running all the applications change what consensus agratim it listens to? So once we hit a certain point, the client on the network stop listening to proof of work as a way to get the latest valid head for for the blot chain and h start listening to the proof of stake beacon chain. This means that you don't need to move all the applications over from one to the other. You can kind of use a different rule to tell you what was the latest valid block,

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