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fredfoobar on May 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post m...

> (And there's BTC holders with more than 0.3% of all BTC)

And yet, they can't stake their Bitcoin gain influence in the network. They're just another user in user-land

vbuterin on May 18, 2021 [–]

What kind of "influence in the network" do you gain by staking?

(Keep in mind that in present-day Ethereum, the influence that PoW miners have in protocol governance is pretty minimal)

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