ETHW Core to push on with Ethereum PoW fork 24 hours after Merge

cointelegraph.com:

The long awaited Ethereum Merge is just around the corner, but not everyone is excited about the major upgrade. A group calling themselves ETHW Core have voiced its opposition to the change and are set to conduct a hard fork within 24 hours after the Merge. 

Under the project name, ETHPoW and with the token ETHW, ETHW Core plans to split off from the main ETH blockchain and maintain a PoW version to keep ETH mining alive beyond the Merge.

“ETHW mainnet will happen within 24 hours after the Merge. The exact time will be announced 1 hour before launch with a countdown timer and everything including final code, binaries, config files, nodes info, RPC, explorer, etc. will be made public when the time’s up,” the group wrote in a Sept. 13 tweet.

The Merge will shift the Ethereum network away from its current Proof-of-Work (PoW) mining model to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, phasing out miners and replacing them with validators.

In their Aug. 29 open letter, explaining their motivations, the group outlined why in their opinion, “PoS is indeed a game changer, but only in bad ways.”

However many in the community believe the fork is motivated by money, rather than ideological differences.

And serious concerns have been voiced over the forks ChainID and whether it will increase the risk of replay attacks and other hacks.

Former Ethereum foundation member Hudson Jameson wondered on Sept.8 why it was launching after the actual Merge.

“I have huge doubts they will gain much hash power if they launch post-Merge," he wrote. "Hash power will be on other chains by then and the value prop of ETHPoW is tenuous already,” he wrote.

So.1. ETHPoW actually isn't freezing contracts.2. It is unclear if they are still editing EIP-1559 to