The highly-anticipated Merge event on the Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) blockchain has been moved ahead by four days.
What Happened: Ethereum developer Angsar Dietrichs announced that the ETH developers had decided to bring forward the scheduled date of the merge from Sept. 19 to Sept. 15.
Fun comparison: On the call today we moved the merge date ahead by 4 days (9/19 to 9/15). Those 4 extra days of PoW would have resulted in $100M additional ETH issuance. The Protocol Guild (a core dev funding org) has raised a total of $10M in its entire existence.
— ansgar.eth (@adietrichs) August 11, 2022
Dietrichs noted that the decision was made despite the fact that four …
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