Don’t know if you guys heard but around the same time that merge takes place it’s when the MtGox coins are going to be finally distributed.
Seems the second half of August will have crazy volatility with all these potential coins being dumped on the market. Wonder how bearish everybody will get as we approach closer and closer to the merge and MtGox drop.
That together with the Vitalik concern of Lido Finance I am sure it will bring huge volatility to the market.Of course if we have PoS in the first place in August which no matter how many testnets they are doing I highly doubt we will see anytime soon the moving of Ethereum to PoS.I think that Vitalik can really use this Lido Finance which has like 33% of staked Eth as an excuse to not move on with the PoS for up to early 2023 as a bare minimum which I think it will be highly likely that it will happen this way.
MtGox that is ancient scam,I don't know but if the coin will be distributed to their rightful respective owners then this is great news.
Last time I checked
about 122 mill coins
including the 2 coins of mine that got lost when the etc/eth rollback fork occured.
60 million pre mined and sold for about 13.8 mill dollars.
12 million developers took for them selves
72 million coins
and 50 million actually mined.
total of 122 million coins of which 15 million are staked
5 million by one company Lido Finance.
so at best all 15 million staked coins were from the premine.
thus there would be 45 million premined coins that one or two people may have control of.
so those 45 million coins could easily take control of the staking.
even if the developers add in the 12 million they kept.
as 45 is greater than 15+12=27
so the reality is pos is a disaster at this moment if it starts up it must fail.
I contend that for a viable pos to start far far far more coins must be staked.
since so many premined dirt cheap coins are not staked.
math does not lie here. mr v b do the right thing stop this suicidal pos march.
it is underfunded and totally vulnerable to an attack by at least 45 million unstaked premined coins
this is as easy as
45> 15+12
that is the best case for staked numbers
reality is
107>15 is worst case number for staked coins
either way the staked amount is very easily overcome since it is about 15 million coins.
You think an attacker is going to risk losing 15 million ETH? Only for the attack to be undone? Even at $1000 ETH that's $15 billion being risked on an attack that can be rolled back.
No there were 72 million premined coins.
12 million went to developers
60 million went to investors at a cost of 13.8 million.
there are 122 million coins in total
say 50 million mined
so
60
12
50
122 total
only 15 million are staked
so 107 million are not staked.
my point is those 15 million staked are very small percentage compared to the cheap 72 million premined.
And the premined cost was only 13.8 million for the 72 million coins.
so pos staking spent a ton of highly valued coins to stake and they can be wiped out on the cheap by all the low cost premined coins.
none of us know how many of the premined are controlled by one or two people.
they can cheaply take over the entire staking with ease.
I can tell you that unless far more coins go into pos staking the risk is huge that you can be wiped by the
premined coin owners
edit more deep thought here.so I am a major player I have 6 million eth all premined investment which would be only 1/10 x 13.8 million = 1.38 million
I find 2 other guys with 6 million eth premised money between us we have 18 million eth which cost us only 1.38 x 3 = 4.14 million
we could crash the entire eth pos setup and only spent 4.14 million back in 2016 to do it now.
how bout we are ready to do exactly that and have placed multiple leveraged shorts on eth across many exchanges.
as I see current setup looks doable. worse yet Mr V.B. made noise about Lido as they hold about ⅓ the staked eth say 5 million coins.
so if Lido is sniffing around looking to hook up with 3 holders of 18 million premined coins. they are now up to 23 million coins easily fucking eth up bigly.
How about they are ready to pounce on that and will have billions in 5x 10x 20x 50x leveraged eth shorts all over.
the cost is 23 million coins of which 18 million were only 4.14 mill in 2016 dollars. and maybe worse is that most of lido coins are dirt cheap maybe 20 bucks a coin when purchased so 20 x 5 million = 100 million and 4.14 million is 104.14 million laid out to make billions in leveraged shorts.
Mr V.B. is risking this by going pos with a mere 15 million of 122 million coins and so many premined unaccounted coins.
Mark my words eth to pos will be the most amazing shit storm ever seen.
now is that just good fud? or a deep thought of Clear and present danger of eth's current pos plan?
I TRULY DO NOT KNOW