Ethereum Merge Countdown Live on the World’s Largest Search Engine

• • Ethereum supporters can keep track of the exact date and time on when the Ethereum merge is expected to go live through Google.
  • At the time of writing, the Ethereum merge is estimated to go live in  4 days 17 hours, and 13 minutes.

The crypto community’s excitement has been rising with each onset of the most awaited event on the Ethereum network nears.

The enthusiasm has forced the world’s largest search engine, Google to create a count-down timer for the Ethereum Merge. By doing so, Altcoin supporters can keep track of the exact date and time on when the Ethereum merge is expected to go live as soon as they search “Ethereum Merge” on Google.

At the time of writing, the Ethereum merge is estimated to go live in  4 days 17 hours, and 13 minutes.

Apart from the Ethereum countdown, Google is also putting on display details about the upgrade, including the Ethereum hash rate and Merge difficulty where ETH investors can view its progress.

ETH Testnet Kiln To Shutdown Prior Ethereum Merge Date

On Friday, the Ethereum Foundation announced that it will be shutting down testnet Kiln during the week of September 12. Additionally, Ropsten and Rinkeby testnets will also derogate and shut down after the merge in Q4 2022 and Q3 2023, respectively.

Launched in early 2022, the Kiln testnet’s purpose was to test post-merge Ethereum prior to existing testnets merging. The official announcement made on September 9 said that All bootnodes and validators related to the testnet will be turned off.

“While anyone can run a node on the network, bootnodes and validators maintained by client and testing teams, as well as infrastructure providers, will be turned off at that point.”

While the Ropsten and Rinkeby testnet remain active after the merge, infrastructure providers may gradually opt to remove the deprecated testnets with time.

Developers are advising users to switch to the Goerli or  Sepolia testnet as they decide to maintain and upgrade these testnets after the Merge.

Goerli, the most used testnet requires large storage as will be used for testing complex smart contracts. Whereas the Sepolia, the less used testnet with a closed validator set requires minimal energy.

Ethereum’s Price Gains Upto 12% Post Merge

In just two days, ETH’s price shows to have taken a new leaf as it gains up to 12%. Volume indicators show that quite a number of investors are up grabbing ETH as the Ethereum Merge nears.

At the time of writing, ETH is exchanging hands for $1,721.16 a 1.35% rise in the last 24 hours. ETH’s price has recovered rapidly over the [ast week as it started off at the $1,680 mark to drop to $1,500. Ranking second after the crypto gladiator Bitcoin, the Altcoin was playing around the $1,500 mark this week.