tldr; Ethereum is expected to undergo a major software upgrade dubbed the Merge, in which the network will shift from using miners to more energy-efficient validators to order transactions. A growing number of factions are making plans for forks that will copy the current software and, with a few tweaks, continue to essentially run the old version of Ethereum using miners.
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