But for now, you can still do as
much Ethereum mining and staking as possible before the new update takes effect.
Not exact matches
A recent report claims that Bitcoin
mining consumes as
much power in a year as 159 countries, which is clearly far too
much, and Buterin admitted that today's
Ethereum isn't any better than Bitcoin in that respect.
For example, the bitcoin
mining network is now also seen as
much more centralized than
ethereum's, despite the fact that certain
ethereum mining pools currently account for larger percentages of its network's hashing power when compared to bitcoin.
Vitalik Buterin,
ethereum's creator, recently released a rough implementation guide that reveals the network's developers will first start with a «hybrid» system that merges bitcoin - style proof - of - work
mining with its
much - anticipated and still - experimental proof - of - stake system called Casper, created by Buterin.
Until PoS is officially rolled out, SmartPool is still relevant and makes
mining in
Ethereum much more decentralized.
Despite aims of decentralizing money and transactions,
much of today's bitcoin and
Ethereum mining has been amassed in the hands of only a few large miners.
Much like
Ethereum, the Ardor platform eliminates the need to operate outside of the robust platform, and also — as a Proof of Stake platform — eliminates the need for
mining.
Ethereum is still primarily a GPU -
mined asset, so any strong crypto without ASIC
mining hardware (Bitcoin, Litecoin / Scrypt, Dash) that relies on proof of work is arguably competing for finite
Ethereum hashpower, but ETC represents a
much more direct alternative that so far looks very attractive.