The cryptocurrency Ethereum, the second-biggest name in cryptocurrency and the most popular by number of trades, is due to undergo its biggest upgrade ever next month. Known as “the Merge,” it ...

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Dubbed “the Merge,” the change decreased Ethereum’s energy usage by 99.998%, thwarting a major criticism on blockchain networks, but it meant that thousands of miners had to figure out what ...

This new merge process takes an infeasible two-spin flip (a), distorts the Hamiltonian, and provides a feasible single-spin flip (b).

Ethereum completed The Merge. The software update is expected to drastically cut the cryptocurrency network’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. But rogue crypto miners could still ...