Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by eeegnu on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:11PM
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Correct me if I'm wrong since I've only read the brief overview of how validators work on ethereum.org, but 141k validators doesn't mean anything when every validator is independent / anonymous and someone with 32k eth staked is actually one entity taking on the role of 1000 validators.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by meowkit on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:14PM
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But that doesn’t mean all of those validators will be in the same voting committee, or that any of them will be selected to propose a new block.
Many of you in this thread need to read up on how the staking is designed to work.
Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by eeegnu on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:40PM
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The point is that the parent comment conflated validators with people, whereas one person or entity can control many validators. That doesn't say anything about it being better or worse than PoW, but it's disingenuous to claim that an attack needs to compromise so many individual people rather than potentially just a few entities that control vast quantities of eth.