The Ethereum neighborhood noticed the launch of two new proof-of-work (PoW) Ethereum forks, ethereumpow and ethereumfair, after Ethereum made the transition from PoW to proof-of-stake (PoS) on September 15, 2022. Nonetheless, the worth of each cash has dropped considerably up to now 4 months, with ethereumpow shedding 94.8% and ethereumfair shedding 98.4% in worth in U.S. {dollars}.

Ethereumpow (ETHW) is at the moment buying and selling at $3.08 per unit, down from its all-time excessive of $58.54 on September 3, 2022. The community’s hashrate has additionally decreased from 68.17 terahashes per second (TH/s) to 16.99 TH/s, a lack of 75.07% since “The Merge.” The 2 prime mining swimming pools for ETHW are F2pool and 2miners.

Ethereumfair (ETHF) has seen a 98.4% decline in worth since its all-time excessive of $20.59 on September 16, 2022. It has had $657,438 in international commerce quantity over the previous 24 hours, with Gate.io as the highest trade when it comes to ETHF buying and selling quantity. On January 3, 2023, it was ranked 2,736th among the many 22,174 tokens listed on coinmarketcap.com.

Google Tendencies knowledge reveals a major lower in curiosity in these Ethereum forks since “The Merge.” The search time period “Ethereum Fork” had a rating of 100 the week of September 11-17, 2022, however has now dropped to a 4. The identical development is seen for the search time period “ETHW,” which additionally hit a 100 throughout that week, however is now barely holding on to a rating of 4. Conversations about these forks are additionally low on Twitter and boards like Reddit.

The declining value and lack of curiosity counsel that these two new PoW ETH forks are slowly shedding relevance. Ethereum itself has additionally seen a 25.62% drop in worth, falling from $1,635 per coin to $1,216 because the transition to PoS.