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I don't deny that the market crash is a factor. Regarding the merge, unlike two years ago: - The proof-of-stake chain has been running for a year and a half.
by DennisP 4y ago
I don't deny that the market crash is a factor. Regarding the merge, unlike two years ago:
- The proof-of-stake chain has been running for a year and a half.
- They've tested every combination of five execution clients and five staking clients, and they all work.
- They just migrated a large long-running public test network to pure proof-of-stake, and it went well enough to have been considered very successful if it had been the production network.
- There are two public test networks left, and if those go well too, there's nothing left to do besides the production migration.
- untangle 4y ago> there's nothing left to do besides the production migration. And this is considered easy/low-risk? It seems like the most frightening part, although perhaps less frightening as the crash continues.
- DennisP 4y agoThe point of merging a public testnet is that it's a dry run for the entire ecosystem. Lots of entities use the testnets, from individuals to applications to exchanges. If they can pull off successful merges on testnets, they can probably do it on prod. And while this is the most complex upgrade so far, Ethereum has done a lot of other upgrades since launch. At some point, you have to accept that you've done all you can, and ship.