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Everybody's Throwing a Watch Party for the Ethereum Merge. Here's Where to Go
Burn the night away, and the last blocks of proof-of-work ether, with these watch parties.
The Ethereum Merge is becoming an occasion for celebration on top of all the speculation.
Ethereum, the second-biggest blockchain network, is scheduled to transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) a little after 12:30 a.m. ET, 5:30 a.m. BST, or 12:30 p.m. in Hong Kong and Singapore.
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For HODLers of ether (ETH), and users of the Ethereum protocol, this is a monumental shift that had been years in the making. As PoW cryptocurrencies are routinely criticized for being energy intensive, one of the major benefits of this transition will be a stark reduction in the network’s energy usage to the tune of 99.95% according to the Ethereum Foundation.
Even though the Merge will take place overnight for most in North America and Europe, the event itself has a festival-like feel to it, a sort of Super Bowl but with more brains than brawn.
The crypto-finance newsletter Bankless aggregated a list of no fewer than six Ethereum Merge watch parties, mostly virtual but a few being held in real life.
The Merge watch parties
For those who want to stay up and party with their fellow HODLers, below is a list of live stream watch parties:
Bankless: The eve of the Merge Livestream (Sept. 14, 5 p.m. ET)
Ethereum Foundation: Ethereum Merge viewing party (Sept. 14, 11 p.m. ET)
The Boston DAO Ethereum Merge Soiree
We will be hosting a get-together tomorrow evening to celebrate the Ethereum Merge as we transition from PoW to PoS.
— The Boston DAO (@TheBostonDAO) September 14, 2022
Come join us on 9/15 for food, drinks and Merge talk! DM us to RSVP.
Huge thanks to @G20Ventures @coinfund_io @EFDevcon @EF_ESP for sponsoring this event. pic.twitter.com/U6tbHzZuDy
And for those at EthBerlin in Germany, conference organizers have put together an in-real-life launch party kicking off that evening. Sources say the RVSP password is hacktheplanet."
CoinDesk Special Coverage: The Ethereum Merge
Sam Reynolds
Sam Reynolds is a senior reporter based in Asia. Sam was part of the CoinDesk team that won the 2023 Gerald Loeb award in the breaking news category for coverage of FTX's collapse. Prior to CoinDesk, he was a reporter with Blockworks and a semiconductor analyst with IDC.
