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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by zilebune on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:31AM (#25198245)
I think with Eth2 we're possibly seeing a the first attempt to address the Innovator's Dilemma[0] in the blockchain environment. I've been following the Eth2 progress for a few months now and from the outside it really feels like trying to swap out the engine of a running racecar.

Definitely worth to follow how the Eth1->Eth2 evolution will play out, but I wonder if is not too late for Ethereum while newer kids on the block [1], much more agile due to lack of legacy overhead, have already launched solutions for many of the problems (PoS, sharding, scarcity, WASM smart contract infra, super-high TPS etc.)[2] that Ethereum will be trying to...in the next year or so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

[1] https://elrond.com/assets/files/elrond-whitepaper.pdf

[2] https://elrond.com/blog/its-time-to-build/

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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by definetheword on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @09:06AM (#25198490)
This project has been going on since 2017, they missed their own deadline years ago. They’re 100% swapping the engines of a running car
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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by nootropicat on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @02:03PM (#25201778)
If ethereum was going to be replaced, that would have happened in 2018 with eos. Network effects proved unbeatable even then, and they are much stronger now. Prices can go in many directions, but ethereum has the highest adoption of all crypto right now and the lead is only growing. In 2020 it flipped bitcoin in total value transferred and total fees.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-set-to-become-first-...

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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by koheripbal on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:51AM (#25198380)
I find it difficult to find a source of highly technical news on new cryptos. Any suggestions?
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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by zilebune on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @10:19AM (#25199209)
Sorry, I haven't found a serious technical source of blockchain/crypto news either and I suspect this is because there are (still) few people that understand cryptos in depth, as well as have time to write news about it.

The vast majority of projects out there are pure speculations and a decent scan through their blog posts, whitepapers and activity on their public repos should be enough to decide if they're building something meaningful (and worth to follow long term) or not.

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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by koheripbal on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @03:37PM (#25202758)
The problem is that their posts are so inundated with shilling it's not scalable to sift through all the crapcoins out there.
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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by fsewe20 on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @12:04PM (#25200359)
https://ethresear.ch/ is probably the best place for technical discussion.
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Re:Ethereum 2.0 – Minimum deposit reached by koheripbal on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:52PM (#25258824)
...but that's only ETH related. I wish there was a forum for tech related to other coins.
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