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Source: https://cryptopotato.com/bitcoin-proponents-against-elon-musk-following-heated-dogecoin-vs-bitcoin-tweets/

On Sunday (May 16), Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk attacked Bitcoin (BTC) for being highly centralized after podcaster Peter McCormack criticized Musk for supporting Dogecoin (DOGE) and for spreading misinformation about Bitcoin.

As you probably already know, on May 12, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shocked the world by complaining about Bitcoin mining’s high usage of fossil fuels and saying that for this reason Tesla would not be accepting Bitcoin as a form of payment until “mining transitions to more sustainable energy.”

The next day, Musk revealed that has been working with Dogecoin developers to reduce the power consumption of mining of the meme-based cryptocurrency.

In fact, as Decrypt reported on May 14, according to Ross Nicoll, one of the part-time Dogecoin developers Decrypt talked to, Musk “started talking to the developers in 2019, he has ‘encouraged them to improve the higher transaction throughput,’ provided ‘lots of advice and input,’ and shared his vast Rolodex of contacts.”

Nicoll also said (1) that the dev team he is part of is hoping to reuce Dogecoin’s power consumption; (2) Musk has been with Dogecoin’s dev team since April 2019 (when he said that Dogecoinmight be his favortie cryptocurrency); and (3) that Musk had offered to fund the team, but his offer of financial support had been rejected (just as with offers they had received from other wealthy potential backers).

Yesterday, Dogecoin supporter “@itsALLrisky” said on Twitter explained why he thinks that Dogecoin, which Musk has referred to as “people’s crypto”, is better than Bitcoin. Musk said Dogecoin would beat Bitcoin “hands down” if its developers made three improvements: 10X faster block production time, 10X larger block size, and 100X lower transaction fees.

Well, today, McCormack criticized Musk for supporting meme-based Dogecoin, which he thinks could potentially result in ill-informed investors in $DOGE suffering big losses, as well as causing harm to Bitcoin’s reputation and its ecosystem.

McCormack’s accusations angered Musk, who seemingly warned that he might just “go all in on Doge.”

Musk then went on to explain why he believes that Bitcoin is highly centralized.

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Source: https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2021/05/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-explains-why-bitcoin-is-actually-highly-centralized/

ETH developers calculated how to defuse the difficulty bomb because if they leave it untreated, they will slow down the network as we can see more in our Ethereum news today.

Ethereum’s encoded difficulty bomb is set to explode this summer and James Hancock as well as Tim beiko said that the ETH developers calculated the time needed to delay the bomb and this could the last time the developers need to take that action. Ethereum developers agreed on Friday how to delay the difficulty bomb ad if that is left untreated, the entire network could be slowed down. The difficulty bomb is an old piece of code that makes mining on ETH slower and less profitable over time by increasing the lag between the production of blocks.

We just wrapped up #AllCoreDevs 113 😁

Agenda: https://t.co/54AacjzpFO
Recording: https://t.co/PM8CVZ7daL

Recap below 👇🏻 https://t.co/wDU2vlNnBS

— Tim Beiko | timbeiko.eth 🦇🔊 (@TimBeiko) May 14, 2021

Ethereum 2.0 switches the network from proof of work as a way of validating transactions with powerful mining computers to Proo of Stake which rewards the ones that pledge the coins to the network. It takes an average of 13 seconds to mine a block on ETH right now and without delaying the bomb, it could take more than 20 seconds to validate the block by the end of the year. Ethereum developers agreed on how many blocks were quite necessary to delay the bomb until December. The calculation for the delay was proposed by the ETH core developers James Hancock as he said:

“The bomb’s always there, and we defuse it by turning the blocktime back just for the bomb.”

He later said that the proposal will delay the bomb by 9,700,000 blocks. Tim Beiko, the ETH core developer also said that the developers dismissed a proposal to delay the bomb next spring but that won’t be necessary. The developers expected that by December, the network will update to allow the ETH 1.0 the network that relies on PoW to communicate with ETH 2.0 as the new network relies on PoS and this is known as the Merge:

“If the Merge is ready by December, we won’t need to do anything about the bomb because we will move away from mining entirely.”

If the merge plans remain unimplemented, the Shanghai fork is expected to go live and will delay the bomb once again. The Bomb has been delayed three times so far.

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Source: https://www.dcforecasts.com/ethereum-news/eth-developers-calculated-how-to-defuse-the-difficulty-bomb/