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Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by kortex on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:05AM (#26214442)
Proof of stake is the fusion power of crypto. It's been 6-24 months away since what, 2016? I toured Consensys a few years back and at the time it seemed PoS was right around the corner.

OTOH, it could be cracked tomorrow and value of dedicated silicon will go off a cliff. So I don't blame the GPGPU crowd for that, before even considering the engineering challenges of silicon/FPGA for eth.

Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by ryebit on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:14AM (#26214530)
Ethereum's Proof of Stake "beacon chain" is already live, with around $6 billion staked (since launch in december 2020). Next year is just formalizing and testing it taking over from the miners. So despite timeframe, there's little uncertainty about the outcome.

https://beaconcha.in/ is a nice explorer to see beacon chain running live.

Re:Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate by kortex on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:21PM (#26244909)
Neat, thanks!