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I don't think Ethereum will ever switch. The miners control the chain now, POS will disrupt that. The miners can't make an orderly exit of resources or to a new coin so they will persist on the dominant PoW-Eth while PoS-Eth loses all chain resources.


> while PoS-Eth loses all chain resources

What do you mean by this? Miners are not needed on the PoS chain, and the PoS chain cannot be attacked with PoW resources.

The end users (people transacting in ETH and launching smart contracts) will decide which chain is valuable and which isn't.


If the POW miners continue mining, that’ll create a fork which will quickly become unprofitable because of the difficulty bomb, and all of the stable coins on the fork will become valueless rendering the fork useless.


It's just code, what is stopping them from removing the difficulty bomb?


Nothing, but that'll just create yet another fork, just like Ethereum Classic, which is completely worthless


"If all miners do not make the switch to Proof of Stake, then there is the danger that ethereum’s blockchain might fork. A similar situation occurred in 2017, when bitcoin miners forced a fork in its blockchain by throwing their weight behind bitcoin cash. Ethereum’s founders, however, foresaw such an eventuality and programmed its blockchain to incorporate increases in difficulty levels for its mining algorithm"

https://www.investopedia.com/news/what-ethereums-difficulty-...


> The miners control the chain now

"difficulty bomb"


> The miners control the chain now

Who wants to vote in a little less difficulty so we can continue mining?




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