Ethereum 2.0 Likely to Happen as Tens of Millions Sent to Deposit Contract
Ethereum 2.0 seems to be confirmed to happen soon as deposits in the contract spike. Ethereum 2.0 Nears as Deposits Spike There is now 80% of the ETH needed to launch the upgrade by December 1st, as Etherscan shows. For some more context, there needs to be 524,000 ETH in the contract for the upgrade to take place on the planned launch date. Large whales and a number of smaller investors have deposited a large […]
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