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Re:White House Is Mulling a Ban on Bitcoin Mining by bsaul on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:40AM (#32789727)
has pos been deployed in the wild at large scale yet ?
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Re:White House Is Mulling a Ban on Bitcoin Mining by lloeki on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:46AM (#32789784)
ETH Beacon Chain uses PoS, shipped on December 1, 2020: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/beacon-chain/

ETH Mainnet is due to replace PoW by PoS by merging with Beacon Chain this September: https://ethereum.org/en/upgrades/merge/

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Re:White House Is Mulling a Ban on Bitcoin Mining by nl on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:46AM (#32789782)
Yes.

Most L1 chains outside Bitcoin and Ethereum use PoS or variants of it.

For example Solana, Cardano, Polkadot, Polygon, Avalanche and NEAR all are proof-of-stake chains.

Ripple has another non-PoW mechanism too.

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Re:White House Is Mulling a Ban on Bitcoin Mining by pawelduda on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:42AM (#32789746)
Ethereum switching to PoS in 5 days, and a bunch of large blockchains have been running PoS (with various consensus mechanisms) for quite some time now.
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Re:White House Is Mulling a Ban on Bitcoin Mining by sudodude on Saturday September 10, 2022 @07:43AM (#32789752)
Ethereum is about to transition in a fortnightt after years of development and testing.
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