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Re:Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices? by kingo55 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @07:32PM (#29764439)
There are forks of Ethereum already running PoS consensus (e.g. Binance Smart Chain, Songbird and an upcoming fork called PulseChain to name a few). I hear the difficult part is getting the sharding to work.
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Re:Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices? by pcthrowaway on Sunday January 02, 2022 @03:11AM (#29766826)
BSC isn't strictly a fork of Ethereum, though it is EVM compatible and uses the geth protocol. It also uses the Tendermint consensus protocol from Cosmos, which is different from the PoS implementation being worked on by Ethereum.

Sharding is definitely proving to be challenging for Ethereum, but my understanding is that it's being worked on independently of the move to PoS now.

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Re:Are cryptocurrencies to blame for high GPU prices? by FranksTV on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:42AM (#29780676)
The difficult part is figuring out why anyone would ever want to use any of this stuff for anything other than money laundering.
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