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		joshmarlow on May 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post m... It's mentioned in the whitepaper - https://ethereum.org/en/whitepaper/ > Note that in the future, it is likely that Ethereum will switch to a proof-of-stake model for security, reducing the issuance requirement to somewhere between zero and 0.05X per year.

baby on May 19, 2021 [–]

Interesting, in any case I don’t think any decision was made to ease the transition at the time.

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