ItsAConspiracy t1_iz9y04c wrote on December 7, 2022 at 3:50 PM

Reply to comment by GoofAckYoorsElf in Ethereum’s energy switch saves as much electricity as entire Ireland uses | The success of The Merge concept may now serve as a roadmap to enable a switch from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake in Bitcoin. by chrisdh79

No more than with mining. Those giant datacenters aren't free.

Some of the older staking protocols are pretty centralized because they use a handful of full staking nodes, with everyone else delegating to those. Ethereum got lucky, there was a breakthrough in cryptography that allowed them to do things in a much more scalable way and support millions of full staking nodes. Currently there are over 400,000.

boife1 t1_izbj8k5 wrote on December 7, 2022 at 10:08 PM

Bitcoin is limited supply if it goes POS then someone or a group can buy 51% and control every aspect of it. With pow anyone can setup miners so it cannot be monopolized the same way. BTC should never and will never go proof of stake.