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Wasn’t Casper going to do this like four years ago? They have been talking about moving to PoS forever now. It still hasn’t happened.

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it did happen (https://beaconcha.in/) and the merge will happen either Q4 or Q1 next year.

I like how these kinds of quips will evaporate

I just wonder what the next criticism will be

"Ooops, maybe PoS was a bad idea, sorry about the billions!"

Have fun with Ethereum Classic or future PoW fork with the current state of Ethereum 1.x

I wont be having fun, as I wouldn't touch ETH. But you acknowledge this situation is bad, and could be the cause of more drama (potentially economy breaking drama)?

Eventually switching to PoS has been the established plan for Etherium for years. Any drama about it is manufactured.

Having an abstract plan to distract energy FUD warriors is not the same as having a technical plan to replace engines on moving vehicles. The drama is real, but it requires putting down the hopium pipe.

One of my companies has been running an Eth2 node for 6 months

It fits the risk profile to let that team attempt to deploy and merge a proof of stake network with sharding

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