> The Merge, Ethereum will use dramatically less carbon to be more secure.
How is "[using] dramatically less carbon" more secure? What are the security implications?
> Since its inception, Ethereum has aimed to implement a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, but doing this without sacrificing security and decentralization has taken years of focused research and development.
A rather notable criticism of PoS, and its variations, is that it /does/ sacrifice decentralization to achieve its aims. I know that much smarter people than me have been working on this, and I don't follow research into consensus algos super closely, but I haven't heard or read anything validating PoS as the silver bullet it's made out to be.
How is "[using] dramatically less carbon" more secure? What are the security implications?
> Since its inception, Ethereum has aimed to implement a proof-of-stake consensus mechanism, but doing this without sacrificing security and decentralization has taken years of focused research and development.
A rather notable criticism of PoS, and its variations, is that it /does/ sacrifice decentralization to achieve its aims. I know that much smarter people than me have been working on this, and I don't follow research into consensus algos super closely, but I haven't heard or read anything validating PoS as the silver bullet it's made out to be.