Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack

Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by Erlich_Bachman on Saturday March 13, 2021 @06:10AM (#26445817)

There is a well-thought out and well-designed process for all stages of this. You can read up on that on the https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/

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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by ArtTimeInvestor on Saturday March 13, 2021 @06:45AM (#26445953)

Been poking around for a while but did not find the part where it explains how ETH moves from the old chain to the new prior to the merge.

Do you know where it is described?

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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by michaelsbradley on Saturday March 13, 2021 @08:29AM (#26446416)

It involves something called the staking deposit contract:

Picking any active validator on the Beacon Chain, we can see that there is an Eth1 deposit and a corresponding Eth2 deposit:

If you're interested in the technical details, see:

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