The Merge on Twitter: Reactions from the crypto community

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After years of anticipation and delays, Ethereum’s transition to Proof of Stake, the Merge, is complete. It appears to have gone relatively smoothly — the network’s final PoW block was mined (as a 37 ETH vanity block NFT) at 06:42 UTC.

Here’s a small look at how the Twitter community reacted to the news.

Team behind Merge celebrates

And we finalized!

Happy merge all. This is a big moment for the Ethereum ecosystem. Everyone who helped make the merge happen should feel very proud today.
— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 15, 2022

LFG pic.twitter.com/niThWBt5zU
— Hudson Jameson (@hudsonjameson) September 15, 2022

The Merge was the culmination of countless hours of work from hundreds of people over many years.

It's an incredible achievement that it happened so smoothly with no disruption for users on the network.

A truly glorious day for every single Etherean.
— sassal.eth 🦇🔊 (@sassal0x) September 15, 2022

Others celebrated the immediate effects of the change:

Love this chart by @ethereum that has been picked up by @BBCNews. Building mainstream awareness of #TheMerge is super important for broader #ethereum adoption. pic.twitter.com/hFsydlx6h4
— csvensson.eth 🦇🔊 ∞ (@ConorSvensson) September 14, 2022

Some paid tributes to the team’s collaboration and development process, as well as the service of (now defunct) miners:

the merge is more than just a technical milestone, it's a massive test of global coordination

huge thanks and congratulations to the thousands of people around the world that made this possible pic.twitter.com/mN0zDC60Yd
— 𝚂𝚌𝚘𝚝𝚝 𝙼𝚘𝚘𝚛𝚎【ceresstation.eth】 (@notscottmoore) September 15, 2022

Thanks to @ethermine_org , @flexpool_io , @SpiderPool_com , @f2pool_official , @pool2miners , @officialpoolin and all the other mining pools that have helped secure #Ethereum over the years, 🫡 💯 #TheMerge
— manifoldfinance.eth (@foldfinance) September 15, 2022

The transition went even more smoothly than had been anticipated:

The block times of the last 100 blocks!
Amazing stability after the merge! Only 1 missed block.
This is really the best case scenario! pic.twitter.com/dV1PF70vCL
— Martin Köppelmann 🇺🇦 (@koeppelmann) September 15, 2022

Others point out problems with the Merge

However, the Merge was not entirely hiccup free…

Unfortunately, there was a slashing that occurred during the Ethereum Merge, validator 404680https://t.co/BdaSFwYm6t

Seems to be run by @Allnodes . Very sad to see 🙁
— fsjal.eth (@FsjalDoesCrypto) September 15, 2022

Ether going to the 0x0 address because people didn't set their fee recipient 👀
— mariano.eth | 🦇🔊 (@nanexcool) September 15, 2022

hey @TwitterSupport if you want to do something about this huge scam that someone's running with stolen verified twitter accounts, feel free to use my spreadsheet… $250k and counting, and i only started tracking it this afternoonhttps://t.co/jmUxzznvOx pic.twitter.com/dbY1T0RtEH
— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) September 15, 2022

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