[robin_reala]

One can be both positive about the benefit that this move brings, yet deeply negative about the overall value of crypto.

[joe-collins]

This is absolutely where I stand. Hurrah, Ethereum's cost on humanity and the environment is dropping drastically! Unfortunately, it still has a measurable (if no longer grotesque) cost with extremely dubious benefit.

[colordrops]

And what is that cost if not environmental?

[presentation]

Probably crime and wasted human potential

[extragood]

It should be rebranded as crypto speculative investment given how infrequently it's actually used as currency.

[zionic]

Perhaps that nuance is achievable, but I have seen none of that here.

That said, I fundamentally disagree that crypto is "overall negative", and with the move to PoS the largest negative aspect of crytpo (the environmental cost of PoW) goes away.

[Sephr]

This merge doesn't make the environmental cost go away. It props up past environmental harms on a pedistal.