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▌ETHW officially released the fork time and main network switching information
The Ethereum Proof of Work fork chain ETHW officially released the fork time, that is, it will be deployed within 24 hours after the merger of Ethereum. According to the social media account @Ethereum PoW of the ETHW main network, the exact time will be announced 1 hour before the launch of the fork network, after which the chain ID of ETHW will be switched to 10001, and the final code, configuration files, binary files and other important materials ( Such as node data, RPC and resource manager information) will then take effect.In addition, in order to provide enough time for chain ID switching, the ETHW main network will go online at a specified time after processing 2048 empty blocks, which means that the first ETHW block containing transactions on the main network will be the Merge block + 2049 .
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▌MetaMask allows the use of Brazilian reals to buy cryptocurrencies
MetaMask has integrated the Brazilian government’s payment system Pix, allowing the purchase of cryptocurrencies with Brazilian reals. MetaMask said that MetaMask integrates Pix through payment infrastructure company MoonPay, which charges a commission of about 1% per transaction, plus network fees calculated in real time. In Brazil, MetaMask currently requires a minimum transaction amount of BRL 102, which is equivalent to $20.
▌Data: 2114 BTC transferred from unknown wallet to Coinbase
WhaleAlert data shows that 2,114 BTC (approximately $46,722,428) were transferred from unknown wallets to Coinbase.
▌Data: ETH exchange balance reaches a one-month high
According to Glassnode data, the ETH exchange balance reached a one-month high, with an amount of 21,365,839.245 ETH.
▌ARK Invest's new chief futurist: Bitcoin and Ethereum are not in competition
Brett Winton, the new chief futurist at ARK Invest, said that there is a perception in the market that Bitcoin and Ethereum are competing with each other, which is not true, and in fact it is even more untrue after the merger of Ethereum. Winton believes that Bitcoin itself is the most likely to win the monetary revolution. The conservative nature of the protocol actually means that over time it has a good chance of displacing second-tier currencies as a medium of exchange. He pointed out that Proof-of-Work is a stronger mechanism for decentralization than Proof-of-Stake. So when Ethereum moves to proof-of-stake, there are all sorts of potential benefits and interesting things going on, but it will actually make the competing space more segregated.