what's going on everyone and welcome to the Rabid Mining youtube channel and tomorrow is
the date that the Robsten merge will happen now it could be you know maybe delayed a day or something
we're not really sure but as a gpu miner this is a big deal so this will give us a timeline depending
on you know the success of this merge test on the test net here or the failure will determine
if we do see a delay or not in the difficulty bomb the ethereum difficulty bomb previously went off
in around april sometime around in this area right here now fast forward to today we're sitting at
around 14.6 seconds of a block time when we're usually around that 13 second mark it does take
a couple months to start feeling the effects and in the past it has gone off before back
here in december of 2019 we were at 17 seconds back in february of 2019 we're at 20 seconds
and back in october of 2017 we actually hit 30 second block times so usually we find about
four blocks a minute at 15 seconds and 30 seconds you would only be finding two blocks per minute
so what does that mean for the chain itself so transactions profitability for miners everything
around 30 second mark would be split by 50 of what we're currently seeing right now now based on the
current timeline of the difficulty bomb we're expecting to hit the 25 to 30 second block time
range around august to september which is the time frame that they are expecting to drop the merge
on mainnet which would become the end of proof of work and gpu mining but first it does have to
undergo three test nets in order to achieve this goal to make sure there are no bugs and robsteen
is the first of these test nets here's a little bit about the upgrade itself so the timing the
merge is a two-step process it starts with a network upgrade on the consensus layer
triggered by a slot height this is followed by the execution layer's transition from proof of work
to proof-of-stake triggered by a specific total difficulty threshold called the terminal total
difficulty or ttd on june 2nd 2022 at slot 24 000 the bellatrix upgrade will prepare the robsteen
beacon chain for the merge at that point cl clients will begin listening for a ttd value to
be hit on the proof of work chain because the hash rate of proof-of-work test nets is very volatile
the tdd value will first be set to an exceedingly high value uh that number there is absolutely huge
so you can see what the number is at robstein's current hash rate it would take 250 years to reach
it once the bellatrix upgrade has happened on the beacon chain a new ttd value which is expected to
be reached a few days later will be chosen and announced users then need to configure
their node with this new value instructions for doing so with each client are available here
when this new ttd is hit or exceeded on robsteen the execution layer part of the transition code
name paris so some of you guys may be confused with paris that's pretty much your gpu miners and
your proof of work side on this rob steen test net that's what paris is and it will begin to start
again note that hash rate on robsteen notoriously variable so the actual time at which the terminal
total difficulty takes place may fluctuate once the execution layer has exceeded the ttd
the next block will be solely produced by a beacon chain validator we consider the merge to have been
completed once the beacon chain has finalized this block assuming normal network conditions
this should happen two epochs or approximately 13 minutes after the first post ttd block is hit so
what does this mean the total ttd is pretty much a massive high difficulty on the proof of work gpu
mining side of this and once it hits that all the hash rate in the world can be mining this but it
is next to impossible for them to actually hit a block there is still a slight you know 0.1 percent
chance but it's next to impossible to validate any block at that point because that difficulty
is so high at this point pos takes over and starts validating all the blocks and now we have
ethereum in a pos situation so that's just a basic explanation on what is happening on robsteen so
they're going to drop that ttt value every all the numbers and everything is in place june 7th
which is like i said tomorrow the beacon chain is supposed to start validating the merge should
be taking place and validating that block now if it does everything it's supposed to robstein will
be a success and they'll just move on to the next test net and see if it works again over there and
then they're going to move to the third and then sometime around octo uh is it october
i guess august or september is when they're gonna do it the actual main net which would be
the end of all our gpu mining for ethereum now if something does fail and it's something pretty bad
or something that they need more time to work on this to get to the next test nets and everything
then they're gonna have another dev call they will have that dev call whether this works or
it doesn't work but they're going to have a dev call and this is going to give us the information
as us as miners are really going to want to pay attention to if something failed and went bad
during this test net merge on robsteen then they will look into needing more time and that will
determine if they're going to actually delay the difficulty bar if they're still not going
to delay the difficulty bomb after robstein then that means everything pretty much went as they
expected everything to go and they'll just move on to the next test net and then give us more updates
from there so again robstein happening tomorrow is very important we're all going to want to keep our
eyes on it to see if anything fails or if this does successfully go through so if something
does go wrong here and they do have to delay this difficulty bomb how long are they going to delay
it and what is the timeline on that so basing everything off their previous all-course dev
call it does sound like they'll extend it about two months now this does not mean
you know in a week from now when they give us the update and it's going to be two months from
there and then it goes off again it's gonna be going off again from the previous two months
earlier so we did see that it did go off around april here so it'll be going off again sometime
middle or end of june so they're pretty much going to have it go off in about a week or two and then
it's just going to be another two months down the road until we get to the point where we are today
and slowly start feeling them effects again so there we have it guys so there are quite a few
out there that's kind of confused on how this whole process works and how it's going to work
and timelines and everything so hopefully this video did kind of give you a little bit of insight
into that and if you still have more questions you know join the discord links in the description or
just ask me in the comments i do go through every comment and i do read every single one and try to
even respond to every single one but i do at least read every single thing out there so thank you for
watching this video guys again ask any question i'm here to help you out and if i miss something
i will try to do an updated video later once i do hear about the results of this Robsten testimony
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