Why is it said that Ethereum might return to the PoW era?
Article source: Yue Xiaoyu
Written by: Yue Xiaoyu
Gootor, the founder of Web3Caff, proposed a very important point, and here are some further thoughts shared:
Ethereum is becoming ZKified, and ZK provers need hardware acceleration; similar to Bitcoin mining, there is a hardware dependency, so ZK mining may become a new type of PoW.
The economic model of Ethereum may eventually evolve into a coexistence of PoS and PoW, forming a new 'hybrid consensus' model.
Next, let’s take a closer look at the underlying logic of the aforementioned ideas.
1. Ethereum is becoming ZKified.
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