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▌ETHW Officially Released the Fork Time andMainnet 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 Ethereum merge. According to the ETHW mainnet social media account @Ethereum PoW, the exact time will be announced 1 hour before the launch of the forked network, after which the chain ID of ETHW will be switched to 10001, and final code, configuration files, binary files and other important materials (such as node data, RPC and resource manager information) will be made available. In addition, in order to provide enough time for chain ID switching, the ETHW mainnet will go live at the specified time after processing 2,048 empty blocks, which means that the first ETHW block containing transactions on the mainnet will be Merge block +2049.
Cryptocurrency
▌MetaMaskAllows Buying Cryptocurrencies With Brazilian Real
MetaMaskintegrated with Pix via the payment infrastructure company MoonPay, which takes about a 1% commission per transaction, plus a network fee calculated in real-time, MetaMask said in a statement on Friday.In April,MetaMask partnered with MoonPay to allow users buy ether and other ERC-20 tokens through different payment methods, such as cards, bank transfers and Apple Pay.In Brazil,MetaMask currently requires a minimum transaction value of 102 Brazilian reals, which is equivalent to $20, to buy ether.
▌ARK Invest's New Chief Futurist Sees an Unprecedented Amount of Asset Value Appreciation
Brett Winton, the new chief futurist at ARK Invest, said that there is a in the marketplace that bitcoin and Ethereum are in competition with each other and that is both untrue and actually even less true post-Merge. Winton believes that bitcoin itself is best positioned to win a revolution in money. The conservatism of the protocol actually means that it's quite likely to supplant certainly second-tier currencies as a medium exchange over time. He pointed out that proof-of-work is a more robust mechanism for decentralization relative to proof-of-stake. So as Ethereum transfers into proof-of-stake, there are all kinds of potential benefits and interesting things that spill off of that but it actually segregates the competitive space more.
▌Data: 2,114 BTC Transferred from Unknown Wallet to Coinbase
According to WhaleAlert, 2,114 BTC (~$46,722,428) was transferred from unknown wallet to Coinbase.
▌Data: ETH Exchange Balance Reached a One-Month High
Glassnode data shows that the ETH exchange balance has reached a one-month high, with an amount of 21,365,839.245 ETH.