The much-awaited Ethereum [ETH] Merge is across the nook. Nevertheless, the mining neighborhood is continuous to seek for new options to maintain their operations going.
Whereas a number of miners are coming into different networks, akin to Ethereum Basic [ETC] and Ravencoin [RVN], some are siding a tough fork, Ethereum PoW. Not too long ago, the ETHW neighborhood printed an open letter addressing the Ethereum neighborhood relating to sure selections and updates of their plan.
Pumped and Prepared
Because the ETHW neighborhood builds its ecosystem, it introduced that no contract pool on the ETHW can be restricted in any method. The neighborhood additional opposed the thought of integrating the contract freezing know-how into the primary core.
Furthermore, the letter additionally talked about absolute adherence to the current ETHW ledger and the absence of any centralized or regulated know-how. Curiously, the ETHW neighborhood additionally said that they’d welcome wallets from any consumer. These embody unusual wallets, on-chain multi-signature wallets, and even hackers’ wallets.
Moreover, if one other DAO like state of affairs have been to occur within the close to future, ETHW clearly revealed their intentions. This entails not rolling their again the ledger, which occurred earlier when ETH was created.
ETHW Core: An open letter to the Ethereum neighborhood [2/9]:
Last Choice on Whether or not to Freeze ETHW Liquidity Swimming pools#ethw $ethw #eth $eth #Ethereum #ethereummerge #ethpow #ethereumfork
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— EthereumPoW (ETHW) Official #ETHW #ETHPoW (@EthereumPoW) September 8, 2022
Not every thing is ok
MarkerDAO lately revealed a brand new document which highlights the potential threats that may come together with the Merge. Moreover, a brand new PoW token could possibly be created.
As soon as the Merge takes place, a forked Ethereum PoW chain seems to be imminent, with a non-zero likelihood that it’s going to use the identical chainId because the PoS chain.
What are the implications of this threat for the Maker Protocol, Dai, and MKR holders?
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— Maker (@MakerDAO) September 8, 2022
Furtehrmore, when forked tokens are created, they are going to improve the probabilities of a replay assault. A replay assault is taking a transaction from one community and utilizing it on one other community.
The forked Ethereum PoW community will be replayed on the Ethereum PoS community in the event that they share the identical chainId. The ETHW additionally identified this station in a latest tweet.
About Chain ID, EIP155, and replay assault –
EIP-155 https://t.co/ONtfEjebLf
The laborious fork that EIP-155 was applied – https://t.co/WXRmvCVA1L
EIP-3788 – https://t.co/rxOGRRqRcr
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— EthereumPoW (ETHW) Official #ETHW #ETHPoW (@EthereumPoW) September 9, 2022
Winner winner, who will get a fork for dinner?
Although ETHW has been within the limelight for fairly a while now, ETC nonetheless appears to steal the present with a large surge in its hashrate and regular worth surge.
As evident by the chart, ETC’s complete hashrate elevated over 100% previously few months, suggesting the token to be the miner’s most popular possibility.

Supply: 2Miners
Whereas evaluating each the token’s costs, ETC registered monumental development, and ETHW’s worth continued to say no since its launch.
On the time of writing, ETHW was buying and selling at $28.18, with a damaging 18% 24-hour efficiency. ETC was priced at $38.76, with optimistic 5.5% 24-hour good points.
Trying on the present state of affairs and complexities with ETHW, it appears that evidently ETC nonetheless has the sting and may grow to be the winner after the Merge.