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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by capableweb on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:50AM (#29227316)
Wouldn't the right question be "Will BTC move to an energy efficient protocol?". As far as I know, there is no plans from the Bitcoin developers to move away from Proof of Work, but I'd be happy to be corrected.
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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by saalweachter on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:56AM (#29227392)
I believe the simple answer is "when BTC stakeholders stand to lose money by not moving away from PoW".
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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by jstx1 on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:09AM (#29227542)
I think there's too much ideology, politics and tribalism involved to simplify it like this.
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Re:Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated upgrade, has activated by javert on Monday November 15, 2021 @09:25AM (#29227737)
You can't move bitcoin off proof of work. You can fork it, and the fork can become more dominant, but the fork won't be bitcoin. Similarly for changing the 21M coin limit. Bitcoin is an idea, not a democracy.
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