Pressure Mounts for #ethereum Developers as ASIC Miners Eagerly Await Next Week’s Hardfork
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Pressure Mounts for Ethereum Developers as ASIC Miners Begin Dominating HashratesEthereum’s hardfork scheduled for later this month will likely have some irreversible ramifications. Ethereum #mining will never be the same again — and its not because of the fallen profit margins, nor is it because of some silly dispute to create Ethereum Cash. This is a planned event supported by almost the entire Ethereum community — minus the miners. We all knew that mining Ethereum would soon come to an end; it’s in Ethereum’s roadmap to switch to a Proof of Stake consensus. And although Ethereum will still be mineable until that fateful day in which PoS comes, some decisions made for this hardfork will have dire consequences for Ethereum miners.Ethereum’s Significance in the GPU Mining IndustryEthereum was (...)