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Re:Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent by rocqua on Thursday January 03, 2019 @04:06AM (#18813800)
Buisness plan: Get a 51% stake in Ether, and hold big users hostage?
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Re:Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent by solveit on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:40PM (#18821537)
That works until the big users hard fork and take away your ether on their fork. It's pretty much a failsafe that always works at the cost of possibly destroying all trust in the network.
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Re:Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Energy Consumption by 99 Percent by yifanl on Friday January 04, 2019 @10:09AM (#18824498)
Giving everyone a nuclear button is an interesting solution.
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