While Bitcoin has been making headlines, Ethereum has been making progress. Could the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market cap be the first to deliver on the promise of the blockchain?Forget about getting a word in, it was virtually impossible to even get a thought in as delegates from the various tribes bickered noisily at the table, each shouting above the other.No, this wasn’t the United Nations General Assembly congregating in New York City, or a gathering of tribal leaders of the Maasai on the vast plains of Tanzania.Instead, this was a gathering of the Saunders clan at a nondescript brownstone in Brooklyn, New York, arguing with each other over whose turn it was to host Thanksgiving Dinner this year — a responsibility that everyone and no one wanted.As Bernard Saunders, the patriarch of the family sat at his oak dining table in silence, his wife of fifty years, Marjorie was trying her best to calm her brood.If we can’t even have consensus on where to host Thanksgiving, what could we possibly hope to achieve when it comes to the world’s second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum.Yet by some miracle that seems to be what Ethereum is inching ever closer towards.What’s at Stake?One of the trickiest bits about cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that they’re built atop is the need to establish and maintain consensus for any major changes to the network.Because changes to a blockchain must pass through a consensus mechanism, getting core developers to agree on such changes can and do result in ideologically-charged differences, which can lead to a hard fork of the original blockchain, as was seen by the creation of Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV, offspring of Bitcoin.Yet somehow, the world’s most actively used blockchain is inching closer to the stuff of dreams, a…