This would be the day Ethereum says goodbye to Proof of Work

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  • The main developers of the Ethereum code rescheduled The Merge for next September 15 or 16.
  • In the evening hours of this Wednesday, the Ethereum developers completed the transition in the test networks, with the merger of Goerli.
  • The next step for developers is the transition from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS) on the Ethereum mainnet.

This August 11, the tentative date for The Merge of Ethereum was rescheduled for the next September 15 or 16. In this way, the main network of the project led by Vitalik Buterin is less than two months away from definitively abandoning the Proof of Work (PoW).

Anthony Sassano, developer and educator of Ethereum, published this Thursday on the social network Twitter that the transition of Ethereum was rescheduled. In the morning hours, Sassano wrote that The Ethereum Mainnet Fusion is now tentatively scheduled for September 15 or 16.

Sassano claimed that the information came from a meeting between the main developers of Ethereum, held this Thursday. Previously, the developers of the Ethereum Foundation had set a tentative date of September 19, as reported by Market Times.

Notably, in the evening hours of Wednesday, August 10, Ethereum programmers completed the transition of the Goerli testnet from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (PoS), as reported. you can read on the Market Times. This event was scheduled to be executed between the 6th and 12th of this month, so its planning was fulfilled.