Njaa t1_izdtglb wrote
Reply to comment by SirSteelBuns in Ethereum’s energy switch saves as much electricity as entire Ireland uses | The success of The Merge concept may now serve as a roadmap to enable a switch from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake in Bitcoin. by chrisdh79
>There is no active development
The client is still being updated regularly, and the most recent consensus change happened way after Satoshi left the project. The latest hardfork was in 2017, and the latest intentional compatibility breaking consensus change was in 2013.
It's true that there hasn't been significant changes in the past years, but this is a matter of lacking motivation from the community. It would still be entirely possible if they wanted to do it, which is what the poster above said in the first place.
SirSteelBuns t1_izdtsnd wrote
I wouldn't say a fork in 2017 is active development. Why would anyone with any stake in Bitcoin be interested in proof of work? It is as much of a joke as the original post.
Njaa t1_izdtwxk wrote
>Bitcoiners won't do it but they absolutely could, just like Ethereum did.
This was the original claim that you reacted to. We all agree that Bitcoiners won't do it.
It seems that we now agree that they could do it.
Your last question is why they would do it.
These are all vastly different topics, but if you wanna talk about the merits of PoS, we can change the topic.
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