Where's Casper? Inside Ethereum's Race to Reinvent its Rules
If you've been following ethereum at all, you're likely aware the blockchain project has a lot riding on something called 'proof of stake'. A radical change to how the network forms consensus, the idea is somewhat simple in aim, but potentially history-changing in scope. The story goes like this: As far back as 2011, some developers began to worry about the energy that bitcoin – which uses a process called 'proof of work' (PoW) – would require at scale (some recently estimated that it would consume as much energy as Denmark). Further, bitcoin's mining firms were already becoming big....
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