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> I feel a great disturbance in the force. As if a million miners cried out all at once and then were suddenly silenced.

You might want to adjust your force sensitivity. The merge doesn't simply GPU mining will stop, simply that the PoS chain is now merged with the PoW chain. You'll still be able to PoW mine with your GPU until they remove PoW fully, which is due to happen sometime around Q3 2022.

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To be clear, it's not possible to PoW mine with your GPU anymore. That's what today's update changed.

what you're referring to is an earlier way the merge was designed. there is no PoW mining anymore.

If that's the case, I stand correctly. Seems my understanding of the merge was an outdated one then. Thanks for the correction.

No, PoW on Ethereum mainnet is forever done after The Merge. The chain is now fully PoS.

We are already very close to Q3 2022. Unless you meant another year.

Isn't September even Q4?

Q1: January, February, March

Q2: April, May, June

Q3: July, August, September

Q4: October, November, December

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_year

Depends on which country you are in. Many countries financial years run April to April.

More precisely, it depends whether Q3 2022 meant calendar 2022 or financial 2022 (and if the second, which financial 2022). But for an international project, I suspect the right reading is Q3 of calendar 2022.

It depends on which type of Q, I think.

Some companies, like Costco, are in their Q1 period right now.

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