The Road to Ethereum 2.0 Crypto : | Ethereum 2.0 | ETH 2.0 | Cryptocurrency | Roadmap | Over the past multiple years perhaps the biggest thing everyone in the Ethereum community (and even the wider crypto community) has been looking forward to is Ethereum 2.0. The long-awaited upgrade to the Ethereum chain brings along many much-needed improvements as well as some controversial changes. But why has it taken this long and when will it be released? Is it worth the wait or is Ethereum already too late? Understanding the idea behind Eth 2.0 Ethereum 2.0 has a few major changes that make it clearly different than Eth 1.x. It moves to a new POS consensus mechanism vs the current POW consensus, there are many reasons for this, from wishing to reduce power usage as staking nodes use much less energy than mining, to the increased efficiency of POS compared to POW and possibly even just to give additional utility to Ether. Another major change is the introduction of sidechains, essentially a