Ethereum community opposes ProgPoW activation

Ethereum community members on Wednesday published a petition against the ProgPoW update, The Block writes. Updateaims to reduce production efficiencycryptocurrencies using specialized ASIC devices. The issue of ProgPoW has not been raised for several months, but during the meeting on February 21, the developers suddenly scheduled an update for July.

“Because Ethereum is a global platform with many different groups of participants, it is critical that major changes to the protocol have a clear purpose and broad support,”- the text of the petition says.

EIP-1057 obviously lacks support, but its activation is still under review. ”

The petition was signed by CEO and Uniswap founder Hayden Adams, CEO Truffle Suite Tim Coulter, DARMA Capital co-founder Andrew Keyes and others.

“The stated goal of ProgPoW is to prevent controversial forks during the transition to Proof-of-Stake. Nevertheless, its activation itself increases the chances of an undesirable outcome. ”, - opponents of updating declare.

“Among ordinary members of the Ethereum community, a clear opinion has formed that ProgPoW should not be launched,- said co-founder of DeFi Pulse Scott Lewis.

If it does not matter for the Ethereum management process, the Ethereum management process needs to be changed. ”

Previously, it has contributed some criticism to this issue.co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin. He refrained from the opinion about the update itself, but rebuked the developers that they made the decision unilaterally.

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