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> This has been delayed, and sometimes people say it is delayed because the miners are against it. They can say that all they want, there's 0 actual evidence o
by carlosdp 4y ago
> This has been delayed, and sometimes people say it is delayed because the miners are against it.
They can say that all they want, there's 0 actual evidence of that. It's been delayed a bunch because it's an incredibly difficult thing to do for a network operating trillions of $ in transaction value.
All indications are at the moment that it will happen around September, but definitely this year. The big test (doing the PoS switch on the most similar testnet) was completed successfully last week!
> Could miners or others with financial interest slow the switch to PoS for Etherium? How would I be able to judge if that is happening?
There are theoretical ways, but in practice it's not all that practical, because ultimately what matters is the "fork" developers and users want to follow. There's a negative incentive for miners to do anything disruptive because it could have an effect on the value of the tokens they already hold.
Additionally, Ethereum has a built-in "difficulty bomb", which basically ensures that a network upgrade happens at a certain cadence, which gives impetus for miners to follow new upgrades or no new ETH will be generated anyways past a certain point.