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Proof of stake is a quarter away. It’s been that way since 2018, and it’ll probably be that way at the heat death of the universe.
by cwhiz 6y ago
Proof of stake is a quarter away. It’s been that way since 2018, and it’ll probably be that way at the heat death of the universe.
- JohnJamesRambo 6y agoIt is already partially implemented now. Just waiting on the full rollout. https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/staking/ https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/staking/
- im3w1l 6y agoSometimes it feels like these processes work like radioactive decay. They don't make progress, they just suddenly happen.
- rich_sasha 6y agoAs an outsider, what’s stopping further progress in this? I would have thought, proof of stake is “it”, why hasn’t it taken over?
- cwhiz 6y agoAn incentive for anyone to switch.
- wmf 6y agoIt's very new technology so it has taken years to refine and test.
- ajkdhcb2 6y agoIt is highly controversial and plagued with unsolvable security drawbacks compared to Proof of Work.
- xur17 6y agoAs someone that's been watching the process fairly closely, that's not my read on the situation. I think it's moreso just a new technology that takes time to perfect, and Ethereum is a large ship, hence "changing course" take a lot of effort.
- ajkdhcb2 6y agoIn an Ethereum echochamber it may seem like that. More generally on 'why hasnt it taken over?' a lot of projects have communities that laugh at the security properties of PoS; they will never consider it