“Reduced ETH issuance and increased burns will systematically reduce ETH supply — putting deflationary pressure on ETH, thereby alleviating institutional concerns of token price dropping to zero, and increasing likelihood of an increase in value.”
https://cointelegraph.com/news/ether-price-could-decouple-from-other-crypto-post-merge-chainalysis
Looks like the ETHpow fork was attacked
https://decrypt.co/110023/ethereum-fork-ethpow-suffers-bridge-replay-exploit-token-tanks-37