> 7/ Recently, a team of reputable developers decided to peer review a widely anticipated Casper / sharding white paper, concluding that it does not live up to

> 7/ Recently, a team of reputable developers decided to peer review a widely anticipated Casper / sharding white paper, concluding that it does not live up to its own claims. That's rather misleading. The critique was about Casper CBC, which is very different from Casper FFG. Casper FFG is the basis of the Ethereum 2.0 design, and it's not very controversial. Casper CBC may be more controversial, but nobody is suggesting that it be deployed any time soon. It's Vlad's ongoing research project.