Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://berlin.social/@cobordism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cobordism</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@hyc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hyc</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.space/@voxel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>voxel</span></a></span> IMHO the only thing that moving <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ethereum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethereum</span></a> from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PoW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoW</span></a> to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PoS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoS</span></a> achieved is raising the wall to make it harder, more expensive amd less attractive for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SmallInvestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmallInvestors</span></a> to fiddle with it.</p><ul><li><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/NotFinancialAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NotFinancialAdvice</span></a> but I would've always disrecommended that espechally after <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Buterin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buterin</span></a> et. al. decided to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Backroll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Backroll</span></a> due to them and others having been <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HornyForMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HornyForMoney</span></a> and wanting to pull funds from <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TheDAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheDAO</span></a>.</li></ul><p>Demondtrably, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/EthereumClassic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EthereumClassic</span></a> would at least be more trustworthy, alas that's an Opinion based off <em>'vibes'</em>…</p><ul><li>Whether the PoS transition did save energy is debateable since <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Ethereum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ethereum</span></a> uses <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ASIC</span></a>|s which makes it way more polluting due to these being <em>useless</em> for anything else. <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Scalpers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scalpers</span></a> are shit but at the very least a <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPU</span></a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPU</span></a> can be <em>reused</em> elsewhere…</li></ul>