Busted: Five Myths Around the Merge | ConsenSys

• Operating expenses to run PoS networks are wayyyyyyy lower than PoW. The cost of running software will continue to approach 0.


• As I discussed in Endgame: Proof of Governance , and many others have before me, the superpower of PoS security is really accountability. If you double sign, everyone knows who you are. We tend to even know their real-world

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However, compromising on decentralization has never been an option for the Ethereum community. It's also essential because it is closely tied to security and gives the Ethereum network properties like neutrality, censorship resistance, and permissionless-ness, which are equally important as the ones in the scalability trilemma.

Immutability, as it turns out, is not always well defined. In the case of blockchain, it does not mean that the records can never be changed or rolled back. Blockchain trust is immutable not in a binary sense, but in a probabilistic sense. Distinguishing untrustworthy chains from the consensus is not an all-or-nothing decision. The more subsequent ... See more