SparkPool retweeted
"Ethereum’s Design Choices Are Inherently Political"
@nic_carter: "EIP 1559 may well have been sound engineering .... However, its largely unacknowledged externality – the redistribution of fees from miners to token holders – is troublesome."
Opinion.
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This is a bug, not feature.
Replying to @el33th4xor
This just isn't the case with Proof of Stake currencies. The selling pressure behind a system such as Avalanche comes solely from the folks who made a lot of money and want to liquidate. It isn't constant, it isn't an inherent part of the protocol's operation.
This is a feature, not bug.
Replying to @el33th4xor
As a result, there's constant downward selling pressure on PoW coins such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
Vitalik don’t think so: vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/0…
#Ethereum is currently the most secure blockchain in the world
Lol
Replying to @jadler0 @koeppelmann
It doesn't matter that a handful of staking pools control >1/3 of stake just like how it doesn't matter a handful of mining pools control > 1/2 of hashrate (on both Bitcoin and Ethereum), and as a corollary it doesn't matter if there are only 21 validators, or 100, or 100,000.
SparkPool retweeted
The other worrying thing about this is that without privacy MEV searchers will prefer sending their transactions to large pools who are less likely to frontrun them. That could give large pools more revenue than smaller pools and drive more centralization.
1/ ETH2 pos launched on 2020-12-01. After 6 months, Top5 ETH2 staking pools have 33.94% share now. In addition, Coinbase will launch its staking pool soon. Do you think it will have a smaller share than Kraken? How about six years later?
Replying to @nicksdjohnson @HachiSalas86 @trent_vanepps @TheBlueMatt @HassanAesthetic @jack @VitalikButerin
Also, the top 5 validators only comprising 20-25% of stake is damn good. What percentage of mining power do the top 5 Bitcoin or Ethereum mining pools make up?
6/ So you can’t say pow is more centralized than pos. Staking pool has more power than mining pool. Maybe we should call them staking farm, not staking pool, since participators can’t leave freely.



















