The upgrade effectively ended the need for the Ethereum network to rely on miners and energy-guzzling mining hardware to validate transactions and build new blocks, as these functions are now replaced by validators who “stake” their ETH.
升级有效地结束了以太坊网络依赖矿工和耗能的挖矿硬件来验证交易和构建新区块的需求，因为这些功能现在被“质押”他们的 ETH 的验证者所取代。