Is there a highly detailed, up-to-date, and well-written explanation of proof-of-stake (ideally with discussion of implications and trade-offs, notes on Ethereum's specific implementation details, etc)? (Googling for crypto-related topics yields "yikes"-level signal-to-noise!)
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e.g. I think I'd like something like this 2014 blog post on the topic[1], except with much greater detail (and ideally, with the many important open questions listed there tied up!)
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Best I've found so far is arxiv.org/abs/2003.03052, which I'm surprised that none of the replies mentioned.
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Gonna batsignal some people I find cogent and reasonable:
My opinion would definitely be a bit too biased, I think. It would be similar in tone to this:
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Holy fuck is Ethereum broken.
EVERY design decisions they've taken for ETH2 carries absolutely irresolvable centralizing forces.
Think staking is bad enough already? The underbelly of MEV is absolutely monstrous.
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