Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Difficulty Bomb

Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by some1else on Friday January 03, 2020 @12:59PM (#21948459)

Given that they keep postponing the transition to PoS, wouldn't it be smarter to remove the artificial difficulty increase and make the network more efficient?

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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by DennisP on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:16PM (#21949293)

Fwiw the transition doesn't look that far off now. There's a working multi-client testnet for the new (separate) proof-of-stake chain, and a recent proposal by Vitalik to transition the old chain into it more quickly than previously expected: https://ethresear.ch/t/alternative-proposal-for-early-eth1-e...

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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by flarex on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:37PM (#21948870)

The reasoning is that somewhere down the line introducing an ice age may lead to a contentious hard fork. Better to include it upfront so that expectations are set that PoW on Ethereum is not a long term thing.

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