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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by nootropicat on Saturday March 13, 2021 @03:55AM (#26445124)
Miners aren't stakeholders, they are hired to do one job and have no right to get any input. They're already coddled in ethereum. Everyone who actually is a stakeholder wants PoS. Ultimately eth buyers decide everything, as all money flows from them. Miners just mine what's profitable at the moment.
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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by akimball on Saturday March 13, 2021 @08:26AM (#26446398)
The only thing eth buyers (and sellers) are deciding is price. The connections between price and protocol are indirect and often complex, tenuous.
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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by pinoli on Saturday March 13, 2021 @10:54AM (#26447365)
sorry but no one is hired. Mining is voluntary and based on incentives: you remove the incentives, miners stop mining.

it’s that simple.

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Re:Vitalik escalates ETH 2.0 merge as miners plan a 51% attack by lupire on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:39PM (#26448783)
> Everyone who actually is a stakeholder wants Proof of Stake

And everyone doing work wants Proof of Work

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