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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by baby on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:27PM (#27198074)
I don’t think PoS was a thing when Ethereum was invented.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by joshmarlow on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:02PM (#27198575)
It's mentioned in the whitepaper - https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/

> Note that in the future, it is likely that Ethereum will switch to a proof-of-stake model for security, reducing the issuance requirement to somewhere between zero and 0.05X per year.

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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by baby on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:31PM (#27204219)
Interesting, in any case I don’t think any decision was made to ease the transition at the time.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by rfd4sgmk8u on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:08PM (#27198683)
It absolutely was, Peercoin (PPC), and even DPoS (BTS) predates ethereum too. What are they worth today? PoS is a scam -- also Diem is worse -- it is dystopia.
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by baby on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @11:31PM (#27204221)
Mkay
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