How the upcoming Ethereum Merge could change crypto’s rewards, costs and reputation

Ethereum, the second-largest blockchain by market cap, is about to undergo a massive transformation known to the crypto community as “the Merge.”
It’s a long-awaited systemwide upgrade that experts say will reduce the blockchain’s energy consumption by about 99% by switching its transaction verification system away from “proof-of-work,” which relies on crypto “miners” using massive amounts of computing power to validate transactions.
After the Merge, Ethereum will use a “proof-of-stake” system that instead uses an algorithmic lottery

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