Todays Drop has nothing to do with the merger. This drop has nothing to do with the merger. It has to do with the SEC settlement with Kraken mostly (although Bitcoin should not be affected because it uses proof-of-work vs proof-of-staking and partly with Fed comments re: more interest rate baloney.
More regulation inevitable and may drive more people to Bitcoin vs other coins as it's the only coin the SEC considers an actual commodity.
The debate on whether staking can be labeled as an unregulated securities breech is not over.
This SEC /Kraken settlement should be good for bitcoin but bad for Ethereum.