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As 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 ago
  An incentive for anyone to switch.
• wmf 6y ago
  It's very new technology so it has taken years to refine and test.
• ajkdhcb2 6y ago
  It is highly controversial and plagued with unsolvable security drawbacks compared to Proof of Work.
  • xur17 6y ago
    As 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 ago
      In 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