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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by ascendantlogic on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:28PM (#27198090)
To establish "good enough" distributed consensus without burning absolutely enormous amounts of energy doing throwaway math problems?
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by rfd4sgmk8u on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:32PM (#27198160)
I understand what they wanted to achieve, and I understand that they cannot achieve this. Seems that burning absolutely enormous amounts of energy is the only secure way of doing it. I guess rather than fight the universe, we better find a way to do it cleanly!
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Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge by ascendantlogic on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @06:13PM (#27201966)
> and I understand that they cannot achieve this

Gonna need some citations here for this one.

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