https://blog.ethereum.org/2022/06/21/testnet-deprecation/
Ropsten, Rinkeby & Kiln Deprecation Announcement

"Reminder: the Gray Glacier upgrade is scheduled for block 15,050,000, expected June 29, 2022
The Kiln Merge testnet, launched earlier this year, will be shut down shortly after the Ethereum mainnet’s transition to proof-of-stake.
Ropsten, Ethereum’s longest-lived proof-of-work testnet, has transitionned to proof-of-stake. It will be shut down in Q4 2022.
Rinkeby, a geth-based proof-of-authority testnet, will not transition to proof-of-stake and will be shut down in Q2/Q3 2023.
Users and developers are encouraged to migrate ASAP to Goerli or Sepolia to test Ethereum in a post-merge context. After The Merge, Rinkeby will not be a suitable testing environment for the Ethereum mainnet. Unplanned mainnet upgrades may no longer be applied to deprecated testnets."

Money is everything, someone who has a lot of money will rule the world, no exception with cryptocurrency. Whales will become in on all sides without a hitch. but basically, in all wars around the world, little warriors (holders) always win.

What do you think about "the merge"?
Q1 2023 could be a reasonable date? They have too many delays... 2022 isnt probable

Ethereum domains showed an increase in demand as Ethereum Name Service (ENS) registration totaled 126,141 registrations in just one week.
The ENS Dashboard, a data tracker created by developer Nick Johnson, shows that registrations went from 11,042 to 29,727, increasing over 200% during the weekend. This happened amid the second-largest .eth domain sale when “000.eth” was bought on Sunday at 300 Ether (ETH), which was worth around $320,000 at the time of sale.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-name-service-registrations-surge-by-200-amid-lower-gas-fees

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2022/07/06/ethereums-sepolia-testnet-successfully-transitions-to-proof-of-stake/
Ethereum's Sepolia Testnet Successfully Switches to Proof-of-Stake
"The Sepolia proof-of-work chain merged with its proof-of-stake chain on Wednesday, taking Ethereum one step closer to its own Merge moment.

Sepolia was the second of three public testnets to run through the Merge. After this, Goerli is expected to merge.
The network went to proof-of-stake (PoS) when the Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) exceeded 17,000,000,000,000,000. That occurred around 17:00 UTC.
In the hours since the testnet merge happened, no significant glitches have been reported.
The Sepolia merge was a two-step process. Ethereum announced that first the operators needed to update their consensus layer and execution layer clients together. That then activated two phases: the first at an epoch height on the Beacon Chain and the second upon hitting the total difficulty value on the execution layer.
The testnet merge takes the project one step closer to Ethereum's mainnet upgrade later this year. The first testnet merge, Ropsten, was completed on June 8."

Vitalik add to blockchain deduplication blockchain data ... :/
next for pos , more all cache to ram , then to cpu , as it pos ( as block via dag now ~ 8 gb how i remember , for pos standart pos not will be need have as minimum 16 gb ( 3 - 4 gb for 1 gb if at lunux as docker , possible no change any logic , put as deduplicated for not critical nodes as fs docker)

changes for pos , create token indexing . as separate db file . for quick go to it.

deduplication + token indexing = working solution. as it will be hardfork so not matter + make it delayed hard fork aka if block x then this logic.

Something I don't understand. Ethereum block time is 10 to 19 seconds but I get a new job message every 1 second or so from Nanopool - why would this be happening?

The conference call saw core Ethereum developer Tim Beiko, who runs core protocol meetings, propose September 19 as the tentative target date for the merger. The proposed target date didn’t face any objection from the core developers.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-dev-confirms-perpetual-date-for-pos-merge

https://coinmarketcal.com/en/event/goerli-merge-123860
Goerli, the last public testnet to run through the merge transition, should do so on August 11th.

very important post-merger update
EIP-4895: Beacon chain push withdrawals as operations
https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4895

Discussions
https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/eip-4895-beacon-chain-withdrawals-as-system-level-operations/8568

https://twitter.com/AlexSlobodnik/status/1551945294446821376?

slobo.eth(C)

"1/ ENS name wrapper is almost here 🧵👇

what is it?

the name wrapper grants the ability to turn any .eth name into a ERC1155 NFT

2/ wrapping a .eth domain enables the parent domain to restrict what can occur with subdomains

the owner of example.eth can allow the creation of sub1.example.eth and restrict further subdomaining

this prevents sub1 from creating sub2.sub1.example.eth

3/ the name wrapper works by introducing the concept of fuses (rights), such as the right to:

- transfer
- subdomain further
- set text records

each fuse can be enabled/disabled permanently & irrevocably

another words unruggable subdomains are almost here
..
"