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Crypto’s long-awaited ‘Merge’ reaches finish line

Por: The Boston Globe Tech September 19, 2022

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The moment finally arrived, in the last minutes before midnight on the West Coast of the United States on Wednesday.After years of delays, discussions and frantic experimentation, the popular cryptocurrency platform Ethereum completed a long-awaited software upgrade known as the Merge, shifting to a more environmentally sustainable framework.Ethereum is arguably the most crucial platform in the crypto industry, a layer of software infrastructure... + full article



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