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It's too lucrative and there's a lot of whales that can manipulate markets My hypothesis is that there going to be another Blockchain where you can mine that c

It's too lucrative and there's a lot of whales that can manipulate markets My hypothesis is that there going to be another Blockchain where you can mine that comes up

cyanydeez 4y ago
There's always going to be the old Ethereum chain. No one can turn it off if people want to fork it.
- landemva 4y ago
  And asset-backed stable coins like USDC will not be redeemable from the GPU chain. The energy consumption debates are a distraction from innovation, so many want The Merge to happen soon to get past this energy issue.
- Crespyl 4y ago
  Ethereum "classic" is still around for the "code is law" diehards. I'd expect most of the people who are fine with the current ETH hard-fork chain will probably be fine with the merge. It'd be interesting if we did end up with three live chains though, probably not sustainable.
- yokem55 4y ago
  Well, the current chain that everyone is following does still have the 'ice age' in it that come September will start making mining new blocks take exponentially longer to mine. If the miners want to continue with the POW chain, they'll have to coordinate a fork of their own to delay or remove the ice age. And that there is the rub. The ethereum miners have never been very good at coordinating amongst themselves.
  - Anunayj 4y ago
    Not to mention, Even if they fork, the value of the token depends on what the community believes it to be. Even if the majority of miners are in support of a hardfork, it's the majority of population who decides which chain has what worth (by simple supply/demand). It will be another Ethereum Classic.
- seanhunter 4y ago
  It's quite likely that the old Ethereum chain will almost completely die off because although noone can force anyone not to fork it, the transaction fees on the new network will be a fraction of the old one, so there will be a big incentive for people to use the new chain.
  - catsarebetter 4y ago
    I agree it's completely possible. I wanted to explore the possibility of forces that are powerfully incentivized for this not to happen
catsarebetter 4y ago
Yes all the responses are valid technical and logistical challenges. If there are a bunch of groups with millions to billions in assets financially incentived for something to exist then my bet is going to be on that thing to exist until such a time as the market forces change to eliminate that need
helen___keller 4y ago
For a chain the amount of GPUs that can profitably mine is a function of token value and electricity price. For the ecosystem as a whole it’s the sum of all (GPU mining capable) chains. Take out the largest market cap chain (bitcoin doesn’t count, it’s ASIC only at this point), and you drastically reduce the total number of GPUs to saturate the crypto mining market.

It's too lucrative and there's a lot of whales that can manipulate markets My hypothesis is that there going to be another Blockchain where you can mine that comes up

cyanydeez 4y ago

There's always going to be the old Ethereum chain. No one can turn it off if people want to fork it.

landemva 4y ago
And asset-backed stable coins like USDC will not be redeemable from the GPU chain. The energy consumption debates are a distraction from innovation, so many want The Merge to happen soon to get past this energy issue.
Crespyl 4y ago
Ethereum "classic" is still around for the "code is law" diehards. I'd expect most of the people who are fine with the current ETH hard-fork chain will probably be fine with the merge. It'd be interesting if we did end up with three live chains though, probably not sustainable.
yokem55 4y ago
Well, the current chain that everyone is following does still have the 'ice age' in it that come September will start making mining new blocks take exponentially longer to mine. If the miners want to continue with the POW chain, they'll have to coordinate a fork of their own to delay or remove the ice age. And that there is the rub. The ethereum miners have never been very good at coordinating amongst themselves.
- Anunayj 4y ago
  Not to mention, Even if they fork, the value of the token depends on what the community believes it to be. Even if the majority of miners are in support of a hardfork, it's the majority of population who decides which chain has what worth (by simple supply/demand). It will be another Ethereum Classic.
seanhunter 4y ago
It's quite likely that the old Ethereum chain will almost completely die off because although noone can force anyone not to fork it, the transaction fees on the new network will be a fraction of the old one, so there will be a big incentive for people to use the new chain.
- catsarebetter 4y ago
  I agree it's completely possible. I wanted to explore the possibility of forces that are powerfully incentivized for this not to happen

catsarebetter 4y ago

Yes all the responses are valid technical and logistical challenges. If there are a bunch of groups with millions to billions in assets financially incentived for something to exist then my bet is going to be on that thing to exist until such a time as the market forces change to eliminate that need

helen___keller 4y ago

For a chain the amount of GPUs that can profitably mine is a function of token value and electricity price. For the ecosystem as a whole it’s the sum of all (GPU mining capable) chains. Take out the largest market cap chain (bitcoin doesn’t count, it’s ASIC only at this point), and you drastically reduce the total number of GPUs to saturate the crypto mining market.