Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Difficulty Bomb

Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by exdsq on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:56PM (#21949667)

Cardano is PoS and released its testnet last month.

Tezos is another.

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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by haasted on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:00PM (#21949712)

Cosmos is PoS and released its mainnet in March.

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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by leppr on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:37PM (#21950054)

A Proof of Stake consensus for a public blockchain like Ethereum has different requirements and is substantially harder to execute than for a permissioned network.

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Re:Delaying the Inevitable: Muir Glacier and the Ethereum Di... by haasted on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:43PM (#21950127)

Definitely agree, although it’s important to clarify that Cosmos is not permissioned. Anyone can start a validator and join the validating set.

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