After transitioning from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS), the Ethereum community saw the launch of two new PoW Ethereum forks: ethereumpow and ethereumfair. In the past four months, the value of both coins has dropped by 94.8% to 98.4% in U.S. dollars.

Since their launch in September 2022, the two newly introduced Ethereum forks that use a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus algorithm have seen significant value loss. Ethereum itself made the transition from PoW to proof-of-stake (PoS) on Sept. 15, 2022, known as “The Merge.” Since then, ETH has dropped 25.62% in value, falling from $1,635 per coin to $1,216.

Over the past four months, there has been little mention of these Ethereum forks, and Google Trends data shows a significant decrease in interest since “The Merge.” The search term “Ethereum Fork” had a score of 100 the week of Sept. 11-17, 2022, but has now dropped to a four.

The same trend is seen for the search term “ETHW,” which also hit a 100 during that week, but is now barely holding on to a score of four. Conversations about these forks are also low on Twitter and forums like Reddit. The declining price and lack of interest suggest that these two new proof-of-work ETH forks are slowly losing relevance.