Bitcoiner Dan Held: Ethereum Merge Will 'Add Pressure to Bitcoin's Energy Consumption'
Switching to proof-of-stake “opens up attack vectors the Bitcoin community does not want to take on," Held said on Decrypt's gm podcast.
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