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After years of anticipation and delays, Ethereum’s transition to Proof of Stake, the Merge, is complete. It appears to have gone relatively smoothly — the network’s final PoW block was mined (as a 37 ETH vanity block NFT) at 06:42 UTC.
Here’s a small look at how the Twitter community reacted to the news.
Team behind Merge celebrates
And we finalized!
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 15, 2022
Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.
LFG pic.twitter.com/niThWBt5zU
— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) September 15, 2022
The Merge was the culmination of countless hours of work from hundreds of people over many years.
— sassal.eth 🦇🔊 (@sassal0x) September 15, 2022
It's an incredible achievement that it happened so smoothly with no disruption for users on the network.
A truly glorious day for every single Etherean.
Others celebrated the immediate effects of the change:
Love this chart by @ethereum that has been picked up by @BBCNews. Building mainstream awareness of #TheMerge is super important for broader #ethereum adoption. pic.twitter.com/hFsydlx6h4
— csvensson.eth 🦇🔊 ∞ (@ConorSvensson) September 14, 2022
Some paid tributes to the team’s collaboration and development process, as well as the service of (now defunct) miners:
the merge is more than just a technical milestone, it's a massive test of global coordination
— 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚝𝚝 𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚎【ceresstation.eth】 (@notscottmoore) September 15, 2022
huge thanks and congratulations to the thousands of people around the world that made this possible pic.twitter.com/mN0zDC60Yd
Thanks to @ethermine_org , @flexpool_io , @SpiderPool_com , @f2pool_official , @pool2miners , @officialpoolin and all the other mining pools that have helped secure #Ethereum over the years, 🫡 💯 #TheMerge
— manifoldfinance.eth (@foldfinance) September 15, 2022
The transition went even more smoothly than had been anticipated:
The block times of the last 100 blocks!
— Martin Köppelmann 🇺🇦 (@koeppelmann) September 15, 2022
Amazing stability after the merge! Only 1 missed block.
This is really the best case scenario! pic.twitter.com/dV1PF70vCL
Others point out problems with the Merge
However, the Merge was not entirely hiccup free…
Unfortunately, there was a slashing that occurred during the Ethereum Merge, validator 404680https://t.co/BdaSFwYm6t
— fsjal.eth (@FsjalDoesCrypto) September 15, 2022
Seems to be run by @Allnodes . Very sad to see 🙁
Ether going to the 0x0 address because people didn't set their fee recipient 👀
— mariano.eth | 🦇🔊 (@nanexcool) September 15, 2022
hey @TwitterSupport if you want to do something about this huge scam that someone's running with stolen verified twitter accounts, feel free to use my spreadsheet… $250k and counting, and i only started tracking it this afternoonhttps://t.co/jmUxzznvOx pic.twitter.com/dbY1T0RtEH
— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) September 15, 2022
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