Ethereum doesn’t know what it is. The rules are always changing, running a full node is practically impossible, and issuance is always changing. It’s not even clear that the features claimed in this paper will be true one year from now.
Multiple consensus failures (most recently this last month) and constant design changes do not provide a secure foundation for sound money.
I found it super easy to setup a full (non-mining) ETH1 node on an Intel NUC running Ubuntu. And on the same NUC I’m running two validator nodes on the ETH2 mainnet, which together have earned about 3 ETH in rewards so far. The NUC is hooked to a cable Internet connection at home, nothing fancy.
The above comment is based on a disproven conspiracy theory that claims no one knows the true number of ETH in existence, and misinformation that a single client (of many) failing to sync for ~6 hours after an upgrade was a problem with Ethereum.
If I’m going to stick my savings in a cryptocurrency, I want the network to be stable for the foreseeable future (and be private, but that’s another story).
Ethereum doesn’t know what it is. The rules are always changing, running a full node is practically impossible, and issuance is always changing. It’s not even clear that the features claimed in this paper will be true one year from now.
Multiple consensus failures (most recently this last month) and constant design changes do not provide a secure foundation for sound money.