Ethereum vs Ethereum 2.0: What’s The Difference?

What Is Ethereum 2.0?

Ethereum 2.0 is a new version of the Ethereum blockchain that will utilize staking to verify transactions using a proof of stake consensus mechanism.

The proof of work paradigm, in which cryptocurrency miners use high-powered computers to solve complicated mathematical functions known as hashes, will be replaced by Ethereum 2.0’s staking mechanism. To verify Ethereum transactions before they are recorded on the public blockchain, the mining process demands an ever-increasing quantity of power.

Systems that use proof of work consume a lot of electricity. Bitcoin mining, for example, presently requires 127 terawatt-hours of power annually (TWh). That is presently more than the entire country of Norway’s power consumption.

ETH presently consumes nearly the same amount of energy as Finland and has a carbon footprint comparable to Switzerland. Fortunately, the merger is expected to lower Ethereum’s carbon footprint by up to 99.95%, resolving one of the cryptocurrency’s primary concerns.

Ethereum vs Ethereum 2.0: What’s the Difference?

Since April 2022, Ethereum has been operating two blockchains in parallel: one that uses proof of work and another that uses proof of stake. The Ethereum Mainnet network (ETH1) and the new Beacon Chain (ETH2) will be merged into a single blockchain.

The ETH1 and ETH2 terms were recently removed. by Ethereum developers due to fears that they might confuse users ahead of the merge.

Some investors may have been confused by what appears to be two versions of ETH, the Ethereum Network’s native cryptocurrency, on Coinbase and other prominent cryptocurrency exchanges.

Users’ Ether is changed from ETH to ETH2 when they stake it on Coinbase, and the prices of ETH and ETH2 are the same. These two forms of Ether will be merged into a single token once the merger is completed.

Ethereum Is Moving from Mining to Staking

Once the merge is complete, staking will be used to validate Ethereum transactions instead of mining.

To participate in the transaction verification process, users must stake a particular amount of cryptocurrency. An algorithm chooses which validator gets to add the next block to a blockchain under a proof-of-stake paradigm depending on how much crypto the validator has staked.

To become an Ethereum validator, investors must invest at least 32 ETH. At the moment, there are over 300,000 Ethereum validators. The more ETH each validator invests, the more blocks that validator is likely to create. For fulfilling validation obligations, a validator gets rewards in Ethereum each time it creates blocks.

The staking return on Ethereum’s Beacon Chain now ranges from 4.3 percent to 5.4 percent each year (APR).

Staking may be rather expensive for the little investor, especially with Ethereum trading at over $1,900 and a minimum requirement of 32 ETH, which is more than $59,000.

Individual investors, on the other hand, can join staking pools, which are groups of Ethereum stakers that pool their resources and divide the profits. Staking services are available from most main cryptocurrency exchanges for investors who are unable to contribute 32 ETH on their own.

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