When I first started yelling at people about this five years ago they told me Ethereum was halfway there to displacing proof-of-work with proof-of-stake ("halfway" because of the fork with Ethereum Classic) Since then, they've gone from halfway to zerohttps://twitter.com/beakfriends/status/1366193100226461698?s=20 …
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("Is that one of OUR chickens or an outside chicken? How do we label our chickens" is the "block selection" problem Proof-of-work makes this moot by not killing chickens and instead killing white rhinos, which are objectively physically rare and verifiable by DNA testing)
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(Proof-of-work always works because there's always a most endangered species of animal in the world that you can work through until it's gone and then go after the next one It is very elegant in its evil and evil in its elegance)
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(If you're an actual crypto enthusiast who's gonna come at me for why this metaphor is bad/inaccurate, I do not care, and neither will anyone else after you've finally killed the planet and they're looking for someone to blame)
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