Merge week replay: Why Proof of Stake by Vitalik Buterin

IT'S MERGE WEEK!

To celebrate I'm going back to the OG episode for this podcast - Vitalik's article on Why Proof of Stake!

On Nov 6th 2020 Vitalik Buterin wrote a short article on why the Ethereum ecosystem is migrating to Proof of Stake (PoS). Despite the shift being planned for years there's a lot of discussion in the ecosystem on why Ethereum is doing this, what are the benefits to PoS over Proof of Work (PoW) and whether this migration is fair to all the players in the ecosystem.

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To read the original blog: https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html

For a summary of the article: https://thewizardstower.com/ethereum-primer#32c8bb249298410ebd37305fb7543c93