Merge is 'a step in the right direction' to address crypto's energy usage — R...
The CFTC chair said that the Ethereum blockchain’s transition to proof-of-stake, despite reducing energy usage by more than 99%, may not go far enough in resolving the problem. Rostin Behnam, chair of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or CFTC, said the Ethereum blockchain’s transition to proof-of-stake may help reduce crypto’s energy usage, but hinted legislation would likely still be needed to address the problem.Speaking at a Thursday hearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee, Behnam addressed a question from Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, who brought up the....
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Authorities in Brussels are taking steps to reduce power consumption, including in cryptocurrency mining, as the EU faces limited energy supplies from Russia, the reliance on which it has been trying to lower. New energy efficiency labeling is to address the growing electricity usage in the crypto sector. EU to Develop Energy Efficiency Label for Data Centers Amid Increasing Consumption in Mining The European Union plans to introduce a label for energy efficiency in efforts to counter the growing electricity consumption in data centers such as those mining cryptocurrencies. According to....
Ethereum Classic moves to the upside and recorded impressive performance over the last week. ETC bulls have been making this push as Ethereum prepares for one of the most important events in its history, The Merge. Related Reading | Ethereum Whales Purchase Over $6 Million Worth Of APE Tokens Set to combined Ethereum’s Proof-of-Work execution layer with its Proof-of-Stake consensus layer. The Merge will finalize the launch of this network’s PoS chain. At the time of writing, Ethereum Classic (ETC) trades at $43 and records a 10% and 66% profit in the last 24 hours and 7 days,....
Before the Merge upgrade, in 2022, the energy consumption of Ethereum ranged between 46.31 terawatt hour (TWh) per year to 93.98 TWh per year. The Merge, which is considered one of the most significant blockchain upgrades on Ethereum (ETH) to date, brought down the network’s energy consumption by 99.9% immediately.On Sept. 15, the Ethereum blockchain migrated from proof-of-work (PoW) to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism in an effort to transition into a green blockchain. What followed was an immediate and steep drop in total energy consumption of the Ethereum network.The Ethereum....
Moments before the big Ethereum Merge took place, co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared his excitement and PoS vision with the community. As the clock counted down to the final moments of the big Ethereum (ETH) Merge, co-founder Vitalik Buterin joined the “Ethereum Mainnet Merge Viewing Party” livestream hosted by the Ethereum Foundation to share his final thoughts.When asked if he was excited about the Merge, Buterin responded that he is "absolutely excited about being exited from the proof-of-work era." The co-founder went on to say that the historic transition of the network from....
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