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Re:SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploi... by AgentME on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:08PM (#27667249)
>accelerates environmental destruction

Ethereum is working on moving to proof-of-stake within the next year, which completely removes its need for energy-intensive proof-of-work mining.

Re:SafeDollar ‘stablecoin’ drops to $0 following DeFi exploi... by WalterSear on Monday June 28, 2021 @04:36PM (#27667716)
Ethereum keeps kicking the can on this, and not for technical reasons.

> “One of the biggest problems I’ve found with our project is not the technical problems, it’s problems related with people”. - Buterin

https://tokenist.com/buterin-explains-why-ethereum-2-0-upgra...

Given that the reasons are political rather than engineering in nature, there's no way to put a timeline on them.