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goatmeal | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 proof of stake was not supposed to bring any speed or cost fixes. you might be thinking of ETH 2.0 which was scrapped in favor of just using rollups
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SimplifiedPrivacy.com Podcast | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The official Eth foundation, as well as prominent influencers in the space did promise it, and the Shanghai Upgrade was supposed to be when those benefits could start being implimented.  Now did they bail on that promise? Quite possible.  The issue with rollups is who is a money transmitter from a legal risk
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goatmeal | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 a stage 1 rollup does not have custody of your funds. you can unilaterally exit even if the rollup infrastructure completely shuts down. stage 1 rollups are not money transmitters any more than non-mining bitcoin nodes.
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SimplifiedPrivacy.com Podcast | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 cool, tell that to Samarai prosecutors. he didn't have custody