{"id":2822,"date":"2020-11-25T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T18:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/15\/ethereum%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8ais-the-bridesmaid-finally-ready-to-become-the-bride\/"},"modified":"2020-11-25T18:15:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T18:15:21","slug":"ethereum%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8ais-the-bridesmaid-finally-ready-to-become-the-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/15\/ethereum%e2%80%8a-%e2%80%8ais-the-bridesmaid-finally-ready-to-become-the-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethereum\u200a\u2014\u200aIs the Bridesmaid Finally Ready to Become the Bride?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Bitcoin has been making headlines, Ethereum has been making progress. Could the world\u2019s 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\u2019t 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 \u2014 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\u2019t even have consensus on where to host Thanksgiving, what could we possibly hope to achieve when it comes to the world\u2019s second largest cryptocurrency by market cap, Ethereum.Yet by some miracle that seems to be what Ethereum is inching ever closer towards.What\u2019s at Stake?One of the trickiest bits about cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that they\u2019re 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\u2019s most actively used blockchain is inching closer to the stuff of dreams, a\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Bitcoin has been making headlines, Ethereum has been making progress. Could the world\u2019s second largest cryptocurrency by market cap be the first to deliver on<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afluxcoin.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}