Investing.com - Ethereum falls -2.54 percent on Wednesday, March 30, 2022, while Ether trades at $3358.
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin recently published an article talking about the state of development and the future of the blockchain.
Since 2015, the Ether fan community has been eagerly waiting for the outdated and slow Proof of Work (PoW) network to finally become an advanced and fast Proof of Stake (PoS) blockchain.
Originally, a period of only one year had been targeted for the conversion. During this period, however, it quickly became clear to the developers that the process of adaptation and redevelopment would take considerably more time. And so many years of development work went by, while new and more advanced blockchains saw the light of day and increasingly outstripped Ethereum.
However, it is currently becoming apparent that the merge, the day when the blockchain is converted from PoW to PoS, will become reality this year. The fact that it has been a long road up to this point is primarily due to the fact that people are becoming more and more aware of the demands that will be placed on a blockchain in the future. In addition, there is the balancing act between a secure and lean network on the one hand and a high-performance and user-friendly platform on the other, as Vitalik Buterin explained.
"In general, I sometimes feel that the biggest challenges for Ethereum are balancing between two visions - a pure and simple blockchain that values security and simplicity, and a high-performance and functional platform for developing advanced applications."
At the heart of the matter, the founder is still moved by questions for which there is no simple solution, as he noted:
"Do we offer fewer features and be more Bitcoin-like, or more features and be more developer-friendly? Do we put a lot of thought into how to make development funding credibly neutral and become more Bitcoin-like, or do we primarily care about making sure developers are sufficiently compensated to make Ethereum great?"
Basically, he would prefer to get everything under one hat. But Buterin is also realistic enough to know that this was impossible to implement in the time that has passed so far. In retrospect, some things could have gone better, he said:
"To achieve such an ideal, it takes a lot of time, and a clearer vision. It probably would have helped us a lot if we had realised from the beginning that it takes time and that we have to think through the roadmap step by step. Today there are many things we can't change, but there are also many things we can still change, and there is still a solid way to improve both functionality and simplicity."
This makes it clear that the Ether founder does not see the Merge as a goal, but merely as a stopover on a long road. True to the motto - standstill is death.
Ethereum technische Kursmarken
Ether managed to overcome both the falling trend line (red line), the 78.6 percent Fibo retracement and the double top at 3274 dollars.
With the recent high at $3,488 there was a test of the 200-day MA where the price failed to advance given the overbought conditions on the RSI. This resistance is reinforced by the 123.6 per cent Fibo expansion located at $3537.
If the price manages to break above the mentioned area, gains can be extended towards the 138.2 and 161.8 per cent Fibo expansions of 3699 and 3962 dollars.
By Marco Oehrl