{"id":20500,"date":"2023-02-14T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/bitcoin-miners-need-ethereum-as-well-coindesk\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:03:03","slug":"bitcoin-miners-need-ethereum-as-well-coindesk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/bitcoin-miners-need-ethereum-as-well-coindesk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Miners Need Ethereum As Well &#8212; CoinDesk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/resizer\/cuU-FvPE1oAGKXVAGWFWdttHMo4=\/800x600\/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/coindesk\/5PVVPRTZRNBE5IG6CTHHPWYNVE.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ethereum\u2019s network and its possibilities, by contrast, are always changing. Ethereum developers have fueled a proliferation of use cases, including the rise of decentralized exchanges (DEX), stablecoins and non-fungible tokens (NFT). Ethereum\u2019s successful transition to PoS (aka \u201cthe Merge\u201d in September 2022) marked a major milestone in the history of blockchain. Looking ahead, the network will undergo several new upgrades, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/tech\/2023\/02\/07\/ethereum-testnet-successfully-processes-first-ever-eth-staking-withdrawals\/\">Shanghai upgrade<\/a> in March and sharding thereafter (both are expected to ease network congestion and establish the prerequisite for major adoption). The future of Ethereum is more exciting than ever, and the growth of layer 2 systems (i.e., Polygon, ZK rollups, Optimism and Arbitrum, to name a few) will further enhance Ethereum\u2019s scalability.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/consensus-magazine\/2023\/02\/14\/why-bitcoin-miners-need-to-take-ethereum-seriously\/?utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=rss&#038;utm_campaign=headlines\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethereum\u2019s network and its possibilities, by contrast, are always changing. Ethereum developers have fueled a proliferation of use cases, including the rise of decentralized exchanges (DEX), stablecoins and non-fungible tokens (NFT). Ethereum\u2019s successful transition to PoS (aka \u201cthe Merge\u201d in September 2022) marked a major milestone in the history of blockchain. Looking ahead, the network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,4,54],"tags":[21,3162,141,1339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinnetworknews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}