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Re:Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ by Taek on Sunday August 20, 2017 @04:04AM (#15057442)
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.

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Re:Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ by DoubleMalt on Sunday August 20, 2017 @04:33AM (#15057525)
Ethereum is the testing ground for Ethereum Classic ;)
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Re:Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ by nebabyte on Sunday August 20, 2017 @05:01AM (#15057592)
Ethereum is not the first coin to use PoS.
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Re:Ethereum Proof of Stake FAQ by petertodd on Sunday August 20, 2017 @05:43AM (#15057696)
...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...
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