Search about Ethereum upgrade increasing rapidly: Report

According to the recent Google Trends data, considering over the past fortnight, people around the world have been eager to learn more about the recent  Ethereum merger, so the search term has become popular everywhere at once.

As of March 6, “Ethereum Merge” is 21% more popular than it is now. An explosion of searches after that date led to the term gaining all-time high popularity worldwide by March 20th.

Canada being the country with the most searched country in the last 365 days, so trends give the country 100 values, which gives it the highest score to search for “Ethereum Merge” in the population.

In Canada, the term became more popular from March 13 to 19. However, by March 26 it had dropped to 39%.

Australia’s population is second, making 84% of the searches made by Canadians in the previous year.

Singaporeans came in third. Like Canadians, by showing  80% interest in “Ethereum Merge”. While fourth is the U.S. Population with 76% of people that are interested.

It should be noted that in the past the British were interested in “Ethereum Merge”. For example, between 19 and 25 December 2021, the term became almost 99% popular in the UK.

Google Trends reports “proof of stake”, “Ethereum merger date” and “Ethereum 2.0 release date” for related search topics. This is not surprising since all of these factors are deeply related to each other.

Ethereum currently uses the Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus mechanism, which means that Ethereum miners (especially 24/7 computers) can scan most transactions on the blockchain with the most computing power and make the most of it. Although this system has been widely criticized for its high power consumption.

While following this merge, Ethereum will “merge” with the mainstream beacon chain, Proof-of-Stack (PoS) system. Since then, Ethereum appraisers (miners can no longer participate in this network) and now the ones staking the highest number of cryptocurrencies will be confirming the highest number of transactions on the chain.

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