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by capableweb 1880 days ago
> Proof of stake is awarded to those with the largest stakes, which favors state-sponsored miners and works against decentralization.

Hopefully it won't be too bad. Here you can see the current involvement from different parties in the beacon chain https://beaconcha.in/charts

Currently "others" is ~52%, Kraken is 2nd with ~17%

I'm trying to understand a similar graph for Cardano (another PoS chain), but not sure I can tell anything from it about the distribution. https://cardano.bytemaniac.net/istoria/

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it's also important to note that stakers can not withdraw yet. once withdrawal functionality is enabled I expect many more folks to stake their ETH because the uncertainty will be gone.