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> and changes take much longer to implement and activate on Bitcoin

That's a funny way of saying BTC doesn't innovate.

> Going from PoW to PoS in such a small timeframe is pretty aggressive no matter how you look at it.

It's been the plan for years. I first heard of it in 2017 and if I'm not mistaken I think it was also in the whitepaper. So it's neither coming out of the blue or an aggressive timeframe.




> That's a funny way of saying BTC doesn't innovate.

Or another way of saying you can expect some stability (and majority consensus) when there's more than a trillion dollars worth of value at stake.

It's been discussed for a longtime, yes, but the expectation is that it would roll out in phases over the next year or two, not rushed out because of a potential 51% attack.


You say rushed but it's not rushed at all. It's simply just a priority change.




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