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by rhincodon 1668 days ago
If POS is really as bad as claimed, then why is Ethereum 2.0 going to be using POS?
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hanniabu 1668 days ago
It's not bad. This piece is written by a bitcoin maxi.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html

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8note 1668 days ago
The naive assumption is that the people making that choice stand to become much richer from the change
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sp332 1668 days ago
Well, how many times has it been delayed? Clearly it's not all sunshine and rainbows.
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suikadayo 1668 days ago
What’s delayed? Beacon chain has been running on mainnet since last December-ish. http://beaconcha.in
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sp332 1667 days ago
The merge was going to happen by the end of this year, but miners complained https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441399 and then it was delayed again. https://www.coinhighlight.com/2021/10/ethereum-eth-devs-look...
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xur17 1667 days ago
> but miners complained https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26441399 and then it was delayed again

To be clear, it wasn't delayed because miners complained, it was delayed because it wasn't ready yet.

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suikadayo 1667 days ago
The merge was expedited over miner concerns, prioritizing it over sharding as originally planned, so it’s actually the opposite of what you are saying.
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sp332 1667 days ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to draw such a straight line between the two things. My point is just that it didn't happen last year, and even after being expedited, it won't happen this year either.
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hanniabu 1668 days ago
But-but-but! frustrated by facts
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seoaeu 1667 days ago
They’ve been saying Etherium will switch to proof of stake “soon” since like 2017!
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