Is There a Fork in Etherium?

The big news at the end of last week was that some people are planning to fork ethereum. This could be a new term for a lot of people, quit. What does this mean? And what are they, what re they trying to doex yes, you can think of forking as they're just copying, copying and pasting the entire history of etherium then proceeding on their own path from there. When the merge happens, will be, etherium continues as normal.