How the ETH Merge Will Impact Miners | Ethan Vera | The Mining Pod

In this episode we talk with Ethan Vera from Luxor about the Ethereum 2.0 merge and its impact on proof of work miners.

Ethan Vera: https://twitter.com/ethan_vera

Will Foxley: https://twitter.com/wsfoxley

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00  Start

00:27  Intro

02:07  Terminal difficulty vs block height

05:25  Technical thoughts

06:42  Why no POW fight?

09:19  Why are miners still mining?

12:50  ETH POW & Luxor

14:49  ETH POW chain?

17:05  GPU hashrate switch?

18:24  Miner hostility other chains

21:46  Switching to rendering & AI?

25:27  NVIDIA & AMD stocks

26:37  Validator pools

31:50  Merge predictions

33:03  BTC hashrate prediction

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