Ethereum PoW Fork ETHW to Launch Mainnet Within 24 Hours After Merge

Ethereum PoW fork ETHW announced that it will launch its mainnet within 24 hours after the Merge, with the exact time to be announced 1 hour before the launch with a countdown timer. The mainnet will start at the block height of the Merge block plus 2,048 empty blocks to make sure that the chainID switches to 10001 successfully and the chain is the longest chain of ETHW. Therefore, the first ETHW block to contain any transactions on the mainnet will be the Merge block +2,049.
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