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Are there any other analog examples where a protocol has attempted this kind of re-naming? Did it work? Or fail? The Ethereum community is so wide ranging, from

Are there any other analog examples where a protocol has attempted this kind of re-naming? Did it work? Or fail? The Ethereum community is so wide ranging, from devs all the way up to people who bought NFTs.

chrisco255 5y ago
It's not a renaming. They're basically just saying that ETH 2.0 as a concept typically used for versioning is not technically correct. There is just Ethereum, and there's various proposals and upgrades in the pipeline for years worth of development. ETH2 was supposed to symbolize the upgrade to proof of stake and the merging of the POW chain with the POS beacon chain. I think it may have encompassed the implementation of sharding as well. But since Ethereum is a living protocol, with many different upgrades and improvements to implement, I think it's more accurate to drop the versioning idea and just explain the different components and features as they go. The next major upgrade for Ethereum will be The Merge, which merges the Proof of stake consensus layer with the proof of work execution layer. It's expected to happen this summer. Afterwards, Ethereum will no longer run on GPUs, you'll be able to run a full node on a Raspberry Pi.
- magicjosh 5y ago
  > It's not a renaming The title of the post is literally "The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?" I get what's happening, my question was about the success of the renaming process.
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  - chrisco255 5y ago
    I see. Well, I think it is a confusing title. As they're not really renaming "ETH2" at all, they're just doing away with it and referring to the components individually. I think some people will still use the phrase ETH2 until the Merge this summer, since it's been around for a while. But then I suspect it will fade away after the Merge. And the next big upgrade after that is Sharding, which is easy enough to say and describe by itself.

chrisco255 5y ago

It's not a renaming. They're basically just saying that ETH 2.0 as a concept typically used for versioning is not technically correct. There is just Ethereum, and there's various proposals and upgrades in the pipeline for years worth of development. ETH2 was supposed to symbolize the upgrade to proof of stake and the merging of the POW chain with the POS beacon chain. I think it may have encompassed the implementation of sharding as well. But since Ethereum is a living protocol, with many different upgrades and improvements to implement, I think it's more accurate to drop the versioning idea and just explain the different components and features as they go. The next major upgrade for Ethereum will be The Merge, which merges the Proof of stake consensus layer with the proof of work execution layer. It's expected to happen this summer. Afterwards, Ethereum will no longer run on GPUs, you'll be able to run a full node on a Raspberry Pi.

magicjosh 5y ago
> It's not a renaming The title of the post is literally "The great renaming: what happened to Eth2?" I get what's happening, my question was about the success of the renaming process.
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- chrisco255 5y ago
  I see. Well, I think it is a confusing title. As they're not really renaming "ETH2" at all, they're just doing away with it and referring to the components individually. I think some people will still use the phrase ETH2 until the Merge this summer, since it's been around for a while. But then I suspect it will fade away after the Merge. And the next big upgrade after that is Sharding, which is easy enough to say and describe by itself.