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Re:Ethereum 2.0 launches by zeroxfe on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @03:45PM (#25269652)
That doesn't follow. The very core of Ethereum is also PoW, and they're migrating to PoS.
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Re:Ethereum 2.0 launches by nemo1618 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:44PM (#25271056)
In case there's ambiguity here, I think GP means "core to the ideals" of Bitcoin, not the core of its implementation.

GP is correct. The Bitcoin community is fiercely conservative, and a proposal to switch from PoW to PoS would be met with about as much scorn as a proposal to increase the total supply.

Ethereum, on the other hand, has never had any strong attachment to PoW -- quite the opposite, really. Switching to PoS has been a major goal since the early days of the project.

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Re:Ethereum 2.0 launches by zeroxfe on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:37PM (#25271976)
Okay, yeah, I agree with that. Thanks.
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