THELOGICALINDIAN - ProgPoW columnist KristyLeigh Minehan has accommodated as CTO of Core Scientific to abolish any abeyant battle of absorption and drive the advance of Ethereums advance angle EIP Last anniversary she was alien from ETC Summit based on Core Scientific access to Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre
Who, What, When?
Minehan appear her abandonment on Twitter yesterday, declared her acceptance that “ProgPoW is of such accent to Ethereum’s alteration to ETH 2.0 that I acquainted removing any abeyant battle or able associations was important.”
ProgPoW is an algorithm aimed at levelling the arena acreage in Ethereum mining, by adverse achievement differences amid ASICs, GPUs, and FPGAs. Fans altercate that it will advice to added decentralise Ethereum abroad from ample calibration miners. This would be added in band with the aboriginal eyes of the whitepaper.
However, some accept apropos that ProgPoW could breach the association unnecessarily, with ETH 2.0 and staking, allegedly imminent.
Friends In Dubious Places
Others accept taken to added claimed attacks on Minehan herself, analytic her trustworthiness.
This culminated in Ethereum Classic authoritative director, Bob Summerwill, annoying Minehan from the ETC Summit. In a blog post, Summerwill cited access amid the Core Scientific CEO, and Craig Wright. Both men act as admiral to Squire Mining, in which Calvin Ayre has a authoritative stake.
Summerwill additionally claimed that Minehan’s actualization as a bedfellow apostle at two CoinGeek (Bitcoin SV proponent) conferences, was an absolute advance and validation of them. For her part, Minehan denied this absolute validation, and joked that she would “accept a PR from Hitler if it was good.”
Commitment To The Cause
Minehan’s accommodation to footfall bottomward has been hailed by abounding as a affectionate act for the account of the Ethereum community. Giving up a job alive on cutting-edge mining and server basement is absolutely no baby sacrifice.
However others acquainted that this aloft alike added questions and were apprehensive of her motives. Why did she feel the charge to advance ProgPoW so hard? Is accord important to her? Does she has apropos about harming ETH’s value?
And finally… Why do so abounding bodies anticipate she has ambiguous motives?
Her abandonment may be advised to ambit her from the toxicity of Bitcoin SV, but is it too little, too late?
What do you anticipate about Kristy’s accommodation to advance ProgPow? Add your thoughts below!
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