Mainnet Merge Announcement
&gt; Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake has been a loooong time coming. Thank you to everyone who contributed to researching, specifying, developing, analyzing, testing, breaking, fixing, or explaining everything that got us to The Merge.<p>At least now it has a hard deadline which will silence the parroting critics on &#x27;burning up the planet&#x27;, &#x27;The merge will NEVER happen&#x27;, &#x27;repeated delays&#x27;, etc.<p>But I imagine that they will invent new problems and the critics will hastefully rush in with their low effort hot takes. The crypto supporters also need to hold their horses a bit on their claims of this &#x27;taking over the current system&#x27; which is extremely unlikely to happen.<p>Which ever side or view you are on in regards to crypto, The Merge seems to be undeniably a great spectacle of software architecture and this event has gone through a very regimented process and checks in upgrading components that handle billions of dollars worth of money.<p>I await to see what happens next.