The Ethereum Merge represents a pivotal transformation for Ethereum, marking its transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, one of the most eagerly awaited events in the crypto world. The Merge signifies a leap from the traditional proof-of-work (PoW) framework to a PoS model, envisioned...

Anyone who read about cryptocurrencies since the ICO boom or more could have learned that Ethereum is planning to abandon the PoW consensus protocol in favor of PoS. The knowledge of this planned transition was so habitual that some of us could hardly believe that Ethereum would adopt the PoS algorithm...