Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
by nootropicat on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:16PM
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This is only enforceable against miners, not stakers. Stakers can trivially hide, miners can't.
>otherwise you seize their tokens for breaking the law.
that's not possible, there's no mechanism to seize eth. What can be trivially seized, though, are physical miners.
You don't need to buy the tokens. You make laws which the stakers have to follow, otherwise you seize their tokens for breaking the law. You can also use electronic warfare to steal the tokens of stakers outside your juridiction. If you are doing this as a big country such as USA/China, then other stakers might be tempted not to fork because a compromised system that works with those countries might still be more valuable than an uncompromised system that has not access to a large part of the world economy.