Kryptoforsker siger, at efter Ethereums fusion kunne Bitcoin blive 'reguleret væk'

Independent crypto researcher Kyle McDonald explained last Friday (September 2) why Bitcoin could get even more attention from regulators — due to its high energy consumption — after Ethereum’s Merge upgrade has been completed.

Her er hvordan Ethereum Foundation forklarer the Merge, which marks the Ethereum network’s transition from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (Pos) consensus:

"Sammenfletningen repræsenterer sammenføjningen af ​​det eksisterende eksekveringslag af Ethereum (det Mainnet, vi bruger i dag) med dets nye proof-of-stake konsensuslag, Beacon Chain. Det eliminerer behovet for energikrævende minedrift og sikrer i stedet netværket ved hjælp af satset ETH. Et virkelig spændende skridt i at realisere Ethereum-visionen – mere skalerbarhed, sikkerhed og bæredygtighed.

"Det er vigtigt at huske, at Beacon Chain til at begynde med blev sendt separat fra Mainnet. Ethereum Mainnet – med alle dets konti, saldi, smarte kontrakter og blockchain-tilstand – fortsætter med at være sikret ved proof-of-work, selv mens Beacon Chain kører parallelt ved hjælp af proof-of-stake. Den nærmer sig sammenfletning er, når disse to systemer endelig samles, og proof-of-work erstattes permanent af proof-of-stake.

"Lad os overveje en analogi. Forestil dig, at Ethereum er et rumskib, der ikke er helt klar til en interstellar rejse. Med Beacon Chain har samfundet bygget en ny motor og et hærdet skrog. Efter omfattende test er det næsten tid til at hot-swap den nye motor til den gamle mid-flight. Dette vil smelte den nye, mere effektive motor ind i det eksisterende skib, klar til at sætte nogle seriøse lysår ind og indtage universet."

Ifølge en indberette by CoinDesk published last Friday (September 2), McDonald thinks it is better to sell Bitcoin now because the Bitcoin price may crash if it gets banned by regulators.

And the reason McDonald is worried about Bitcoin getting Bitcoin after the Merge is that Ethereum’s switch to the much more energy-efficient PoS consensus might make regulators think that maybe PoW was never essential.

The report says that he told CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover” program that the climate cris, Bitcoin mining’s huge energy consumption, and lack of any evidence that Bitcoin is highly unlikely to switch to the more environment-friendly PoS consensus could put pressure on regulators to ban Bitcoin, and that in fact Bitcoin could become the first cryptocurrency “to be regulated away” (at least in certain jurisdictions, such as the U.S. or the European Union).

McDonald also mentioned that he believes Ethereum Foundation’s claim about the Merge reducing Ethereum’s energy consumption by 99.95%:

"When you’re moving from a system that is about generating as many random numbers as fast as possible with 10 million [graphic processing units] across the world, to a system that’s running on a few thousand computers that are pretty low energy, it’s going to make a huge difference."

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