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Re:The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing by cwhiz on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:07AM (#26293868)
Proof of stake is a quarter away. It’s been that way since 2018, and it’ll probably be that way at the heat death of the universe.
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Re:The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing by im3w1l on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:20AM (#26293955)
Sometimes it feels like these processes work like radioactive decay. They don't make progress, they just suddenly happen.
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Re:The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing by JohnJamesRambo on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:16AM (#26293926)
It is already partially implemented now. Just waiting on the full rollout.

https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/staking/

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Re:The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing by rich_sasha on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:27AM (#26293996)
As an outsider, what’s stopping further progress in this? I would have thought, proof of stake is “it”, why hasn’t it taken over?
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Re:The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing by ajkdhcb2 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @03:23PM (#26296703)
It is highly controversial and plagued with unsolvable security drawbacks compared to Proof of Work.
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Re:The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing by xur17 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @05:19PM (#26297649)
As someone that's been watching the process fairly closely, that's not my read on the situation. I think it's moreso just a new technology that takes time to perfect, and Ethereum is a large ship, hence "changing course" take a lot of effort.
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Re:The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing by ajkdhcb2 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @07:01AM (#26314381)
In an Ethereum echochamber it may seem like that. More generally on 'why hasnt it taken over?' a lot of projects have communities that laugh at the security properties of PoS; they will never consider it
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Re:The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing by cwhiz on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:37AM (#26294082)
An incentive for anyone to switch.
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Re:The GPU Sadness Index: Tracking eBay Pricing by wmf on Sunday February 28, 2021 @12:41PM (#26295157)
It's very new technology so it has taken years to refine and test.
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