Originally published in the ChangeNOW blogIn 2014, five visionary minds came together to lay the groundwork for a platform and a programming language aimed at facilitating any developer who wishes to build and publish next-generation distributed applications on the blockchain. The platform was named Ethereum and had its mainnet frontier launch in July 2015.Launched with the Proof-of-Work mechanism, Ethereum showed immense potential as a global, open-source platform for decentralized applications. Developers could use it to codify, decentralize, secure, and trade just about anything including voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements, intellectual property, or smart properties.After the mainnet frontier launch, the platform went through at least four planned upgrades between March 2016 and December 2019. However, none of these updates was meant to change the consensus mechanism of the platform. The upgrade to Ethereum 2.0 \u2014 which is to be launched on December 1, 2020 \u2014 is a pretty radical shift. It plans to move away from the Proof-of-Work mechanism to the Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism. Along with it, it is aimed at enhancing the platform\u2019s scalability, sustainability, and safety.Proof-of-Work (PoW) mechanism has been one of the most adopted consensus mechanisms. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin \u2014 all popular crypto protocols were developed on PoW. In PoW, miners need to run nodes and spend computational energy to solve complex mathematical problems and mine the next block. Consequently, mining in PoW requires considerable investments in terms of hardware and electricity. Although the combined computational power that goes into mining blocks makes PoW extremely secure, it also makes the PoW chains less accessible and less scalable. Introducing the PoS mechanism for Ethereum 2.0 is aimed at solving these issues and making ETH 2.0 mining more convenient.Let\u2019s have a look at what the new protocol is!As we have already seen, the vision\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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