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Re:Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble by Aachen on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:08PM (#26289397)
I've heard some skepticism regarding the PoS of eth, so I'm in "let's see it when it's there" mode, but I'm somewhat optimistic here. Can't go fast enough for my taste, I'm really curious if it'll turn out to be what it's supposed to! Hopefully this will also mean people start to move over to this better tech.
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Re:Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble by DennisP on Saturday February 27, 2021 @09:39PM (#26290157)
It's been running perfectly in production since Dec. 1, with over $5 billion in ETH staked so far.

Migrating the legacy stake and EVM to it still needs to be done, but that's irrelevant to the consensus algorithm. It's just changing the data it reaches consensus about.

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Re:Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble by Aachen on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:56AM (#26293435)
Interesting, I should look into this again and update my knowledge. Thanks for the reply!
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