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Re:Ethereum Proof-of-Stake by cowtools on Thursday July 07, 2022 @10:54AM (#32014878)
...but if it succeeds, then everyone else gets slashed. The network has no concept of "truth". PoS doesn't fix this, it just puts all your eggs in one basket.

Who would be interested in using any network which exists only for the profit of the existing stakeholders? Why not just fork it?

Re:Ethereum Proof-of-Stake by aeternum on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:16PM (#32015893)
Forking it is the real threat. If some entity does end up controlling 67% or doing something the community does not agree with, people will just stop using the chain.

This already happened once with Ethereum.

Re:Ethereum Proof-of-Stake by cowtools on Thursday July 07, 2022 @06:52PM (#32020674)
Yes, but etherium forked in favor of the stakeholders.
Re:Ethereum Proof-of-Stake by rglullis on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:10PM (#32021372)
Depends on who you ask, and what fork they would rather be.

Those that decide against the fork stayed on what became "classic".

Re:Ethereum Proof-of-Stake by aeternum on Friday July 08, 2022 @05:11PM (#32027151)
Which is the ultimate form of consensus: which fork does society actually choose to use?

In the end, that's what really matters.

Re:Ethereum Proof-of-Stake by skinnymuch on Monday July 11, 2022 @05:16PM (#32061980)
A lot of the stakeholders of Eth classic and the forked current Eth believe in code is law. The fork is and wasn’t in favor of that.