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That version of PoS would have required a minimum stake of 1500 ETH, because it couldn't handle many staking nodes. Then they figured out the beacon chain, whic
by DennisP 4y ago
That version of PoS would have required a minimum stake of 1500 ETH, because it couldn't handle many staking nodes. Then they figured out the beacon chain, which would support staking with only 32 ETH. They made a conscious decision to eat a couple years to go that way instead. The beacon chain launched as a parallel network in December 2020.