Ethereum PoW - Official website. How To Claim ETH POW (ETHW) Airdrop coins After ETH 2.0 Merge ETHW (or EthereumPoW) is a hard fork of the original Ethereum blockchain network, which went live after The Merge. EthereumPoW will continue with the contentious PoW consensus mechanism, while Ethereum will move over to the energy-efficient PoS consensus.