Raziskovalec kriptovalut pravi, da bi po združitvi Ethereuma lahko bitcoin "regulirali stran"

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.

Evo, kako Ethereum Foundation razlaga the Merge, which marks the Ethereum network’s transition from Proof-of-Work (PoW) to Proof-of-Stake (Pos) consensus:

"Združitev predstavlja združitev obstoječega izvršilnega sloja Ethereuma (glavnega omrežja, ki ga uporabljamo danes) z njegovim novim konsenznim slojem za dokaz deleža, Beacon Chain. Odpravlja potrebo po energetsko intenzivnem rudarjenju in namesto tega zavaruje omrežje z vstavljenim ETH. Resnično razburljiv korak pri uresničevanju vizije Ethereuma – več razširljivosti, varnosti in trajnosti.

"Pomembno si je zapomniti, da je bila Beacon Chain na začetku dobavljena ločeno od Mainneta. Ethereum Mainnet – z vsemi svojimi računi, stanjem, pametnimi pogodbami in stanjem verige blokov – je še naprej zavarovan z dokazom o delu, čeprav Beacon Chain teče vzporedno z uporabo dokaza o deležu. Bližajoče se spajanje je takrat, ko se ta dva sistema končno združita in dokazilo o delu trajno nadomesti dokazilo o deležu.

"Razmislimo o analogiji. Predstavljajte si, da je Ethereum vesoljska ladja, ki še ni povsem pripravljena na medzvezdno potovanje. Z Beacon Chain je skupnost zgradila nov motor in utrjen trup. Po obsežnem testiranju je skoraj napočil čas za vročo zamenjavo novega motorja za starega vmesnega motorja. To bo nov, učinkovitejši motor združilo z obstoječo ladjo, ki bo pripravljena vložiti nekaj resnih svetlobnih let in prevzeti vesolje."

Glede na poročilo 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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