
Off-Chain 7/20/22: THE MERGE IS COMING AND WE'RE RICH AGAIN... right? RIGHT?!?!
The Decrypting Crypto Podcast
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What the Hell Is the Merge?
The merge is probably the most significant event that we've been waiting for in certainly the ethereum ecosystem, and i would argue, probably the biggest thing in crypto since the whole kind of a block size debate. So t well, let me give you a bit of a a quick primer for anyone listing that doesn't know what the mage is. Its migrating and completely changing the consensus mechanism of the e Ethereum block chain from what it is to day - proof of work ultimately as a consensus mechanism. That useis pretty significant amount of energy. Bhut switching from of work to proof of stake has none of these high a energy, resource intensive a mechanisms in place,. basically reduces the the carbon footprint
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