Ethereum PoW (ETHPOW) Rekenmachine

EthereumPoW is the rough-edged twin born at the moment Ethereum switched its lifeblood from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake in September 2022, a split where practicality and ideology struck sparks like flint and steel: while Ethereum marched into staking, slashing, and a power draw cut by more than ninety-nine percent, ETHW kept the old engine running-Ethash mining, pre-Merge block times, and full EVM compatibility-carrying over the entire pre-Merge state so every account, contract, and dApp had a mirror on day one, protected from cross-chain transaction replays by a distinct chain identifier; it was a lifeboat for miners who had sunk capital into GPUs and some Ethash ASICs, and a statement that security paid in electricity and hardware still has teeth, yet it entered a leaner world where developer attention, liquidity, and tooling largely stayed with the main chain, major stablecoins and many core DeFi protocols did not extend support, bridges remained thinner, and oracles were patchy, all of which throttled composability and slowed ecosystem compounding; nonetheless, ETHW’s EVM keeps Solidity and Vyper contracts humming, client software derived from go-ethereum maintains the protocol, and the network’s parameters feel familiar to anyone who lived the pre-Merge era-gas dynamics akin to old Ethereum, the Ethash puzzle designed to favor memory-heavy computation that once made GPUs king-even as its hash rate and miner economics ebb and flow with market cycles, raising the usual proof-of-work questions about 51% attack risk when security budgets thin; set against it stands Ethereum’s proof-of-stake, which brought energy efficiency, faster finality, and broader access through staking rather than rigs, while a parallel lineage, Ethereum Classic, continues its own PoW path with Etchash and an ethos forged in 2016’s immutability dispute, giving miners and ideologues multiple trenches to choose from; in this landscape ETHW functions as both artifact and argument, a running ledger for those who believe that permissionless computation is kept honest by spent watts and unblinking machines, even if the wider developer gravity, infrastructure depth, and network effects favor the polished avenues of the post-Merge world.