The existence of ETC is a major reason why ETH really can't go POS; not that I think it was likely in the first place.
This two statements are intriguing, especially connection between ETH not being able to go POS because of ETC staying POW.
Could you elaborate?
ETH going POS would be like Coke deciding they will no longer produce Coca-Cola Classic, but will only sell Coke zero.
In the future you will get 100:1 chance to get Coke Zero when buying Classic!
https://github.com/ethereum/research/wiki/Casper-Version-1-Implementation-GuideTheir bullshit has its own bullshit.
Called this over a year ago; took 6 months longer than I expected.
The closer you look at ETH; the more questions you will have.
The best thing ETH has going for it is that most people will never read the whitepaper or review any of the code.
I'm betting in 6 months there will be a nerf announcement; which drastically reduces what ETH will actually do.
I like this announcement they can stay 99% pow for 6 months and then say step 2 98% pow.
It is a clever way of staying as a pow coin and keeping asics at bay.
Most people don't understand how bad asics are for coins.
But if you see what an asic giant like bitmain can with LTC the true problem of asics get revealed. Simply too much power in one companies hands.
I still see most news helping gpu back coins. This 99% to 1% idea can buy six solid months of ETH mining at a minimum.
Which in turn helps my nvidia's mining Zec.
Oh I ordered this card today on ebay.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/382048425324?700 x 1.07 = 749 after tax but I earned 56 ebucks so net 693 six months no payment or interest with paypal.
I could have ordered this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ZOTAC-ZT-P10810A-10P-GeForce-GTX-1080-Ti-Founders-Edition-11GB-GDDR5X-352-bit-/172587640269?this would have been 675 - 54 ebucks = 621 six months no payment or interest with paypal.
I own both cards the msi from is better and newegg will get the card to me 5 days faster.
So a small edge to the msi.
I finally am feeling some what okay with my spring allergies. I am going to start the redesign of the solar array next week.