What is behind door #3?

We are still talking about the Ethereum fork upgrade from Proof of Work (POW) to (POS) a few years later.

Anytime we are talking about free iEthereum, you know we have to talk about it.

For the sake of word branding, we are going to refer to the Ethereum Proof of Work iEthereum as iEthereum POW.

Official Declaration: The iEthereum on the EthereumPOW network is now known in my world as iEthereum POW or iEth POW.

We see a lot of value in the Proof of Work consensus models. This includes Ethereum Fair another Ethereum proof of work network. The value would make for an interesting article for iEthereum use cases on different Ethereum networks. Leveraging risk, miner and community engagement, and targeting markets are just to name a few off the top of my head that could be honestly debated on a case by case use case scenario.

Nevertheless, if you owned iEthereum prior to the finalized merge at block 15537393 on September 15 at 1:42:42 a.m. EST you will have the same amount of iEthereum POW on the Ethereum POW network.

VERY IMPORTANT: No manual contract interaction is required to claim. NONE. Beware of scammers saying otherwise. Never give up your private keys to anyone. Private keys represent ownership. If you give out your private keys, you are giving up ownership of your property.

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