Well, alternative platforms with their pace of development to the ether as before the moon
But the eth has three serious problems:
- Network, the ability of transactions. What kind of shit can easily hammer the whole network
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Unlimited emission of tokens. Yes, goodbye miners, hello to POS- Regulating all that ico-shit, that collects funds in the eth and then drops it to the market, dropping the rate.
Yes, yes, have you ever thought what happens to the millions of Dolar at the ETH, which collected scum projects?
Are you sure about the unlimited emission of tokens with PoS? Asking because I believe exactly the opposite. From what I know, with the implementation of Casper the issuance rate will not increase but may decrease even, to something much less than 3 ETH per 15 seconds. Also the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) #1011 suggests combining PoW with PoS consensus, with reducing the block reward for miners from 3 ETH to 0.6 ETH. The EIP#1011 was introduced in April 2018 when Buterin also stated that the new model would allow the developers to launch Casper without disturbing the Ethereum network, claiming that Casper is “more separate from the main chain.” I think it's a smart move because if something goes wrong with PoS they can easily switch back to PoW alone.
In short, I think that the developers are able to deal with the problems you've mentioned and that ETH will remain the best crypto next to Bitcoin in the foreseeable future.
You are right, the solutions are offered interesting. But at the moment this is a project problem. While working solution is not entered.
Moreover, in addition emission there is a problem in the fact that the miners eat a lot of energy, and as far as I remember the utterances of Buterin, he is not happy about this, he thinks that this is not entirely correct.
So there are different types of pos/pow mining is the future of coins and their development
Okay, if PoS consensus algorithm is so good, I mean, no enormous electric energy consumption, no need for the constant maintenance and renewal of ASICs and other mining hardware, why do we say that Ethereum is the best crypto next to Bitcoin? Ethereum will use PoS only potentially, while there are coins, NEO, Lisk, Stratis and some others, which are using PoS already. Why don't people just switch to those coins? I think it's not so simple. I think PoS has some serious disadvantages and that's why the devs are going slow with implementing it. I'd love to see what others think about this.