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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by bhaak on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:56AM (#26181313)
> They've been _planning_ to move to PoS for ~3 years, with a much too optimistic timeline.

PoS has always been on the roadmap even before their ICO. But yes, with a MUCH more optimistic timeline.

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Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3... by hobofan on Thursday February 18, 2021 @11:05AM (#26181497)
Yes, but back then nothing more than the first few ideas towards their PoS existed IIRC.

2-3 years ago is when the Casper FFG paper was published and subsequently the architecture of Ethereum 2.0 (and the concrete 3-phase roadmap towards it) were published.

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