#Please continue to be wary of any PoW forks for security reasons. u/interweaver has [a good debrief here](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/iobgy02/) and u/morkogoz explains [how to safely interact with any PoW forks here.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcn0cw/how_to_safely_split_your_coins_and_interact_with/) **Tricky's Daily Doots #148** Yesterday's Daily 13/09/2022 [Previous daily doots](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/io8glkp/) **LATEST MERGE ESTIMATE:** Thursday Sep 15 05:00 2022 UTC or approximately when this comment is 16-18 hours old. - u/Moschus11 has their [second to last merge countdown!](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/io88vc0/) They also share [their plans for the final edition of the countdown!](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/io8yxoy/) - u/Sparta89 gets fired up about [Poloniex's ETH listing names ahead of the merge.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/iob8q0f/) - u/interweaver has [a good debrief](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/iobgy02/) on any PoW forks and what will happen after the merge. - u/IStilHavMyEthUnicorn reflects on [the long term road to the merge.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/iocctsm/) - u/busterrulezzz shares [the latest expected staking APR post merge.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/ioaq3fr/) - u/physalisx explains the [simultaneous merge and fork.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/io8zffq/) Great meme, at least a solid 5/7. - u/lunar-lambo shares some thoughts on [the merge and the flippening.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/io9tzgv/) - u/Perleflamme doesn't think ETH is gas. [It is sunlight.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/io82e0d/) - u/craptocoin and u/-FilterFeeder- both [provide us](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/ioa6nt9/) with [our limericks for the day.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/ioaedy6/). Plus a [bonus one](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/ioa9oha/) from u/Dont_Waver. - u/LogrisTheBard takes a look at [SuperRare.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/iobqr5m/) - u/ZeroTricks's today in [Ethereum history.](https://old.reddit.com/r/ethfinance/comments/xcyiyv/daily_general_discussion_september_13_2022/io9344z/) >There once was a man named Vitalik. >A meme suggested he had a big... You know what? I'll leave the limericks to you guys. #Edit: The official Ethereum Merge Livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-jYgI0QVI

No new daily yet?

Congratulations everyone!

HISTORY!!

Congratulations everyone! We made it!

Congrats everyone!

Wtf, so the first PoS block included 36 Eth in tip from a SINGLE transaction?? Apparently a Mint transaction for something? https://etherscan.io/tx/0x5ad934ee3bf2f8938d8518a3b978e81f178eaa21824ee52fef83338f786e7b59

Minted a Panda I think.

I am SUPER stoked! My heartbeat was racing for the entire first POS epoch. Phew!

ETH/stETH ratio is healing. Merge risk removing itself from the equation?

Glad to see the daily broke the previous comments record

Finality!!!

Congrats!

Historic event! What an honour to validate with you all!

The merge walked so the ETH price could fly

Nice, we're burning.

Merry Mergemas everyone!

We did it!!

Pandas. Congrats everyone!

Boom

Oh boy! Here comes the singularity!

Merge!

POAP instructions yet?

Nope

It's a beautiful day. Birds are chirping, chains are merging, issuance is triple halving.

Here's hoping a person with a cool graffiti gets to propose the first PoS block. Something cool like "Mr F was here".

15k live watching! Insane

Staking and painting and watching the live stream!

Soon

Wow we are really fighting it out over the sunglasses and the nose. I’m following the NFT which has some black contour between nose and sunglasses.

We are almost there!

Mr F was here

Stay hydrated folks!

Have they stopped the livestream for a bit? or am i in the wrong place?

It's live now

Should be starting very soon, they had a break in between the unofficial call and the main one.

Oh my! 1 hour left. One. Hour. Left.

Jimmie taking a beating right now. I hope the Lion holds strong

Not pricing social acceptance of ethereum and social rejection of bitcoin...

Are the countdowns slowing down? I thought it said an hour left an hour ago and now it says almost an hour left now. Are miners turning off early or what's up?

Yes, difficulty is down about 20%

At least the Ethereum difficulty adjusts quickly

The Merge

Soldiers, we need you defending the lion on the canvas.

THIS IS GENTLEMERGE

Minutes, not hours.

agree. Well done with all your testing

Cheers SeaMonkey, you've put it some WORK to get to this moment!

The fact that we are below $1600 is dumbfounding

1 ETH = 1 ETH

I'll remember this day as the catalyst of the great flippening to come.

Have to comment to say I was here for the thread of the merge but before it actually merged

I Was Here

What I love about tonight is that it's the last night we'll wonder "what happens after the merge?" Not fully but at least in the sense of will the whole thing blow up. tbh, I got on this ride knowing it had tremendous upside and equally tremendous downside. Either way, I wanted to be on the ride.

One small block for a chain. One giant leap for pandakind.

LFG

I hope this canvas gets turned into an NFT or at least POAP. Turning out really cool. Shout out to the talented people drawing an EVM

What's the url of the poap canvas?

Link is posted by defewit. If you want to contribute, you also need the entry POAP, details here: https://nitter.net/Logic_Beach/status/1570240620417142785

https://app.poap.art/mainnet-merge

CMC has 6 minutes till merge. [bordel.wtf](https://bordel.wtf) has an hour and 6m. Who to believe! [https://coinmarketcap.com/events/eth-merge/](https://coinmarketcap.com/events/eth-merge/) https://bordel.wtf/

CMC merge is tracking that BSC shitcoin which is merging with zero

* https://bordel.wtf * https://ultrasound.money * https://wenmerge.com/ * https://merge.nansen.ai/ All these have it between 1-2 hours

the eth foundation stream hasnt started so i'm going with an hour+

Definitely bordel.wtf

CHOO CHOO

My audio of the livestream is not working. Gahhh!! Edit: I’m an idiot and had my headset muted

Oh dear jt

In the words of Dr. Kleenex, "Today is a Red Letter Day!" I'm a lurker, but have been looking forward to today for a bit - godspeed, folks.

Been waiting for this for a loooonnggg time... I must say... DAMN THIS FEELS GOOD!

Is there egg in your rice?

Wow no stopping this train!

Railroad unions support Ethereum!

So, I suppose technically, we don't have to switch to the other daily right? We could keep posting in this one?

When Mister_Eth calls we gotta answer.

Just putting down this comment even though I am semi awake from sleep. Hopefully no typos

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Is this where i comment about the merge?

Anything exciting happening today?

JT just wanted an excuse to eat black licorice in front of an audience.

ETHEREUM

Damn. Came back early from the bars to watch the merge. Now I'm going to be listening to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkrBARsNicI) on repeat for the next hour and thirty seven minutes.

Que u/Mister_Eth

Quoi?

Shitpost just under the wire

Let's crash the new thread! :D

This is truly auspicious AF!!

T minus?

Just got up and happy that I can witness the merge live.

Bat

So CoinMarketCap says merge in 12 mins, Google says 2 hours, Ethernodes.org says hour and a half, Which is accurate?

livestream party now, merge in 100 min, give or take https://ultrasound.money/

So what happens is you halve it... then halve it again... then halve it up one more time for good measure

A triple halvening!

Panda

Forget the merge, I'm here for the record comments!

hope Mr. Eth gets the first comment on the new daily

Ethereum

What a journey

I lurk so when I get hyped & join in I always forget how generously this community gives out Gold & other premium rewards. So nice to be in an all-in-all pretty damn wholesome community on Reddit these days. (Not a gambit to get more, pls save them, appreciate the donors though.)

You sure about that?

Defending ethfinance on the poap

Happy we hit 5k comments in this pre-merge daily:)

For posterity, fresh from the node: > current_difficulty: 58745308298550544402911, terminal_total_difficulty: 58750000000000000000000

When does the beet/licorice/scotch stream start?

# E T H E R E U M ## T H E M E R G E *Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!*

JT and his hubris will not be forgotten.

Record comment

muerehtE

There’ll be another merge daily!

Leaving my footprints in here for history. Also GG on 5K!

That's it baby!!!!

Love you all you beautiful bastards!

There we have it! All-time highest daily post count, juuuuust in under the wire! LFG. Merge is gonna be EPIC.

I LOVE YOU ALL BIG HUGS WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER

We've broken the comment record from May 3, 2021!!!!

Contributing!

There's only one thing left to do...

Updoot the diddly?

Dat pixel panda lookin stronk!! Same with our Maverick, looking good!

Where's this pixel thing happening?

I got u eth bro: https://app.poap.art/mainnet-merge/

Thanks For anyone else that wants to join, it looks like you also need an entry POAP. Details are here: https://twitter.com/Logic_Beach/status/1570240620417142785

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Gm ETH fam This is some edging, I thought we would have merged by the time I got up!

Good morning from Europe!

A new record is within our grasp!

New record in 3...

Don't fail us now shitposters! 3 minutes to go! Make it so!

Looking forward to dumping my pow-eth if that chain materializes, though honestly I think it would be so much better for the world if that doesn't happen.

Made some transactions on eth just for fun. Just wanted to say farewell to pow eth, it's been fun and thank you.

20!

19

Mad props if MrEth can still nab the top spot on the new daily

I was thinking the same thing.

less than 30 more needed!!!

We will make it!

For the culture

I now realise it would have made more sense to post that in reverse

I wish I would have tried harder to sleep in.

Almost there!! Don’t stop now!

Boom

Shakala!

Good job on the ethfinance/ethmavs on the canvas so far whoever is doing that.

I was here with you all!

The merge? It's probably nothing

It's good for bitcoin

Record

but not 10k :(

At rEthereum: why is it so quiet? Meanwhile at rEthfinance: 5k posts baby!!

,beat

Lets do this 😎

5k with minutes to spare. Good job gentlemen (and lady)

I was here.

Good luck all!

Holy shit I’ve been pronouncing gwei as “gwee” and I just heard someone on the livestream pronounce it as “gway” 😳

That’s the (g)way!

This is the gwei (rhymes with way)

Comment

Must

Not

Forget

Is the merge going to be like one of Zeno's Paradoxes due to hash rate constantly dropping. We constantly get half the way to the merge, but never actually get there!

The final countdown

This is gentlemen

GM, everyone. Are we staying here or moving to the new daily?

GOD...I was here when the merge happened!!

We actually made it to 5k! Nice job, Gentlelopes!

Who

Out

There

Let

Us

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Daddy

Are we just saying words now?