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Tuur Demeester Compares Ethereum's "Difficulty Bomb" Mechanism to Communism

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Fri, 6/12/2019 - 18:21
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Tuur Demeester Compares Ethereum's "Difficulty Bomb" Mechanism to Communism
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Tuur Demeester, the founding member of Adamant Capital, claims that Ethereum's difficulty bombs are comparable to the US transitioning to communism while updating the Constitution.  

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A contentious solution 

The difficulty bomb (also called the "Ice Age") is a a piece of code that is meant to artificially slow down the issuance of Ether by gradually ratcheting up mining difficulty on the blockchain. This mechanism is supposed to power Ethereum's big switch to the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm.

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Such a drastic change to Ethereum's monetary policy is contested by many miners who will be thrown under the bus with declining block rewards. 

Ethereum developer James Hancock recently proposed an independent hard fork called "Muir Glacier." The purpose of the new fork is to delay the implementation of the ice-age bomb. 

"This fork will push back the Iceage as far as far as is reasonable and will give us time to update the Iceage to no longer have these design problems," said Hancock . 

Unlike the upcoming Istanbul hard fork, Muir Glacier changes the currency's issuance model, which would be impossible for Bitcoin. 

Hancock also suggests that the Iceage could be removed entirely as a viable solution. 

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Bitcoin-only believers 

Demeester is not the only Bitcoin maximalist who regularly lambastes the leading altcoin.

Back in October, veteran cryptographer Nick Szabo claimed that Ethereum was turning into "a centralized cult." 

Meanwhile, Blockstream CEO Adam Back went as far as tweeting that Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash were fiat currencies.   

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