Ethereum's core developers have set September 15 as the tentative date for the long-awaited proof-of-stake Merge upgrade
and the Planet Grace Benfell / GameSpot : Ethereum Is Ditching Proof-Of-Work Verification For A Less Energy Intensive Process Tweets: Olga Kharif / @olgakharif : Ethereum's Merge date is set in stone (sort of) for Sept. 15 at today's developers' meeting: https://www.bloomberg.com/... @crypto : The Merge has been in the works for years and will change the way Ethereum orders transactions. Instead of using energy-guzzling computers called miners, the network will deploy validators using staked Ether tokens https://www.bloomberg.com/... @crypto : Ethereum developers also debated on whether the network will be as censorship-resistant as the current rendition. The issue is coming to a head in the face of recent US government sanctions against Tornado Cash https://www.bloomberg.com/... @crypto : This is likely the final forecast for the upgrade's timing. Ethereum said it plans to make the network more energy efficient https://www.bloomberg.com/... @crypto : The timeframe of the Merge could change to an earlier or later date since it will likely be impacted by any large swings in the amount of support Ethereum has to order transactions https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... @crypto : “This is the hill I am willing to die on, if we start allowing users to be censored on Ethereum, then this whole thing does not make sense,” developer Marius van der Wijden said. @olgakharif shares more on the Merge: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/...