[HN Gopher] Judge issues restraining order keeping DOE from trac...
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       Judge issues restraining order keeping DOE from tracking Bitcoin
       miners
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2024-02-27 20:25 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
        
       | AnarchismIsCool wrote:
       | What happened to all the proof of stake stuff? Did that just fall
       | out of vogue?
        
         | JamesLefrere wrote:
         | Ethereum made the switch from PoW to PoS in 2022. It was called
         | The Merge https://ethereum.org/roadmap/merge
         | 
         | It's unlikely that Bitcoin will ever do the same, for the same
         | reason Ethereum was created separately in the first place: they
         | (BTC community in general) don't want to add or change
         | anything, because they perceive that as diminishing its value.
         | Oh well.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | [dupe]
       | 
       | More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39525283
        
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