Does it really make sense to push an untested, highly criticized, and drastically different security architecture onto a live $20 billion system? Especially from a team that has a history of borking updates (Spurious Dragon)?
If there was an ounce of sanity here you'd at least have a 12 month trial period in an altcoin to iron out the kinks.
Re:Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ
by DoubleMalt on Sunday August 20, 2017 @04:33AM
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Ethereum is the testing ground for Ethereum Classic ;)
Ethereum is not the first coin to use PoS.
...and other coins using it have run into severe problems. For example, Peercoin had to add a system of centrally managed checkpoints to avoid nothing at stake attacks: https://github.com/peercoin/peercoin/blob/fbc81b380221e55c94...
It's unfair and inaccurate to describe the execution of a long-established plan that has been part of Ethereum since the beginning as some sort of nefarious plot being pushed through using manipulation.