At the 2022 Mainnet Conference, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin strongly urged blockchains like Dogecoin and Zcash that wish to improve their scalability to follow suit and shift to PoS.

Many analysts said that Ethereum's next upgrade, the "Shanghai upgrade", may turn the tide, which is also one of the most noteworthy Ethereum hard fork upgrades after the "London upgrade". In the "London Upgrade", Ethereum introduced the revolutionary EIP-1559 protocol to improve the original transaction fee mechanism and effectively reduce the inflation rate of Ethereum through the burning mechanism. So what changes will the much-anticipated "Shanghai upgrade" bring? Can it help Ethereum make a comeback?

The increase in difficulty has reduced the number of coins mined by miners during the same period of time. Now the declining price of ETC has also made some newcomers who want to try GPU mining undecided. Against this backdrop, is ETC still worth mining?

Reactions to the Merge vary significantly. Unlike people who joined the YouTube live stream party hosted by the Ethereum Foundation or recorded this wonderful moment on SNS platforms like Twitter, Ethereum miners, concerned with their financial interests, are looking for the next mining destination.

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In the blockchain space, each cryptocurrency was born with a mission. For instance, as stated in its white paper, Bitcoin carries the mission of building an all-new cash system, and Ethereum’s mission is to evolve into a distributed “world computer”. When it comes to mission, Monero, a long-standing crypto created in 2014, strives to become a secure, private, and untraceable cryptocurrency.

To seek further growth, BCH ABC built a professional team of promotion and operation to gain more market influence. On July 1, 2021, BCH ABC officially launched eCash, a new brand with a clearer positioning, and its native token is called XEC. The tokens were distributed at the 1 BCHA=1,000,000 XEC ratio, which marks the birth of eCash.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum’s Goerli testnet completed its Merge at around 01:50 (UTC) on August 11. Goerli is the last of the three Ethereum public testnets, and this is the last Testnet Merge before the Mainnet Merge.

Since 2022 kicked off, the crypto market has suffered one blow after another. As Bitcoin and Ethereum crashed into the ground, the whole market has taken a plunge. In the meantime, facing the grossly depreciated collaterals, crypto lending platforms forced users to add more margins. As a result, tons of users started to withdraw assets from lending platforms. Subsequently, some platforms went under, others laid off staff to survive, and even Celsius failed to stay intact.

According to the latest survey released by CouponFollow, Litecoin has become the third most popular cryptocurrency among consumers when it comes to the desired rewards of crypto credit cards. Additionally, it is only slightly less popular than Ethereum (41%), the No. 2 crypto on the list. As one of the most popular cryptos out there, Litecoin has earned the favor of many miners.

As the ETH price went up, the proportion of Ethereum’s market cap to the entire crypto market cap has risen from 14.88% to 18.47%. Considering the leading position of Ethereum in the crypto space, the Merge is good news for the whole market.

In the past 20 years, the traditional business model of online content has created a wide range of problems, covering the inappropriate distribution of revenue, the ownership of content, as well as the vicious competition that has gone rampant. In the meantime, the Web 3 creator ecosystem, which is based on blockchains, underlying NFT economies, or platform-built monetary systems, has taken shape, which could be a great solution to these problems.

As the U.S. is now the world’s biggest destination for BTC mining, the massive shutdown of mining operations in Texas has affected the total BTC hashrate the next day of the incident, which has dropped to 159.4EH/s, the lowest record in the past five months. Despite that, the decline has not hindered the normal operation of the network. This is the case because Bitcoin is decentralized, and problematic nodes in one region or national/regional hostility towards the cryptocurrency will have no impact on the network, which also explains Bitcoin’s exceptional value.

After the BTC hashrate hit a record high of 266.41EH/s on June 8, people thought that the vitality injected by miners, who run the crypto upstream, could save cryptocurrency from the prolonged slump and lead to market recovery. Yet, as central banks around the world raised interest rates to combat the soaring inflation, financial markets in many countries suffered panic-driven dumping. Affected by such external forces and macro policies, crypto finance has struggled to stay intact.

Many of you might wonder: Why does Ethereum need so many testnets? How do they differ? Today, let’s check out the public Ethereum testnets and how we can get test coins from ETH faucets.

Since the revenue of Ethereum miners exceeded that of Bitcoin miners for the 12th consecutive month, the winning spree has finally been terminated in June, and the profitability of Ethereum mining took a sharp plunge primarily due to the overall sluggish market over the past few months.

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Since Ethereum announced its shift to PoS, the crypto community has kept close eyes on how the different stages of the transition progressed. According to the official roadmap, the Merge is undoubtedly the network’s highlight in 2022, no wonder the ETH community is always talking about it.

This year, the crypto market kicked off to a rough start. Meanwhile, multiple big-name crypto institutions “crashed” recently, which led to a new round of market panic. According to CoinGecko, the current total market cap of cryptocurrencies is less than $930 billion, which has shrunk by nearly two thirds from its peak in November 2021.