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No. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Welcome to TechTent with me, Zoe Kleinman, where this week we're diving into The Merge,

which is making one cryptocurrency much, much greener and even harder to understand. But don't

worry, we've got a couple of experts on hand to make it all clear.

Also this week.

Instead of using the word COVID-19 or vaccine, they were using emojis of carrots, as in the

vegetables.

And initially, I was a little confused because I didn't know the context of this group.

So I was reading through these posts and I kept seeing these carrot emojis and I didn't quite know initially what they were talking

about. The latest frontier in disinformation online, root vegetable emojis. And we'll also be finding out

about the biggest and brightest satellite ever launched and why some space experts are taking

a dim view of it.

But first, a few hours before we recorded the show, a landmark cryptocurrency moment occurred.

It's called the merge, and even if you don't care about crypto, it's good news for the planet.

Ethereum has switched to a new way of operating,

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