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by 0x64 1394 days ago
The current estimate for the upgrade can be found at [1]. It's not a regular upgrade that happens at a specific block height, hence the variance. Instead, the consensus is flipped over from PoW to PoS at a specific total difficulty, also known as mining difficulty. One of the reasons is to avoid miner attacks around the merge event.

[1] https://bordel.wtf/