Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum

Re:Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum by nicwolff on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:43PM (#31242058)

I'm also skeptical, but let's remember that the point of the fable is not "the boy's repeated claims lost credibility because the wolf never came", but rather "the people eventually learned to ignore the boy's claims and were caught by surprise when the wolf finally came" ツ

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Re:Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum by lupire on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:54PM (#31242167)

But if PoS comes after everyone stops caring about ETH (or PoS), it still fails. PoS isn't the hard part. Getting ETH successfully onto PoS is the hard part.

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Re:Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum by DennisP on Monday May 02, 2022 @08:30PM (#31242871)

According to the people designing and building this stuff, PoS itself was a lot harder than merging it with the rest of the network.

For PoS there was all sorts of complicated game theory, a whole new protocol, and trying to figure out every possible way to attack it.

For the merge, it's basically just changing the fork choice rule of the existing network, so instead of going with the fork with the most work, it goes with the one being chosen by the PoS network.

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Re:Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum by mccorrinall on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @01:00PM (#31250641)

They still haven’t solved the nothing at stake issue. I don’t see any progress being made regarding game theory.

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Re:Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum by DennisP on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:22PM (#31253094)

Locked deposits and slashing solve nothing-at-stake.

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