What You Need to Know Before the Ethereum Merge

By Travis Hoium – Aug 13, 2022 at 10:10AM

Key Points

Anticipation of The Merge has helped drive Ethereum's value up 100% in the last few months.
The impact on Ethereum's energy usage post-Merge will be enormous.
However, improvements in speed and cost may take much longer.
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CRYPTO: ETH

Ethereum

Market Cap

$292B

Today's Change

(0.33%) $8.02

Current Price

$2,423.05

Price as of June 27, 2025, 7:56 p.m. ET

Ethereum's "Merge" has been scheduled for September 15, 2022, so should investors buy ahead of this milestone?

Ethereum (ETH 0.33%) has scheduled "The Merge", or a move from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake validation, and investors have been bidding up Ether's value in anticipation. So, what's the impact of The Merge on users and investors? The video below goes through the good and bad of this transition.

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